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There are many reasons I love Ecuador.

Here’s one more:

An indigenous Ecuadorean woman walks in her community of San Miguel del Prado, north of Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, March 22, 2006. Thousands of police and soldiers were deployed to clear blocked highways Wednesday after President Alfredo Palacio’s government declared a state of emergency in four provinces to curb protests against a proposed free-trade deal with Washington. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa R.)

Ecuador’s President Declares a State of Emergency

President Alfredo Palacio of Ecuador declared a state of emergency late Tuesday as growing antiglobalization protests by thousands of Indians threatened to paralyze Latin America’s fifth-largest oil producing country. . . . Still, indigenous leaders said the protests would continue. They demanded that the government back out of negotiations with the United States for a free trade agreement, saying such a pact would decimate rural farming in Ecuador.

Take that, globalism!