Afectación de los derechos de la naturaleza en proyectos extractivos mineros en la región sur del Ecuador

Abstract

Abtract: Being the nature a vulnerable, and in response to the risks that the human activities represents to it, the;Pacha Mama´s; rights were recognized in our Constitution on 2008; however, despite the guaranteed rights established on said Constitution, the Ecuadorian Government has been the first to violate those nature´s rights (In an attempt to fight poverty and its external debts) by allowing open-pit mining projects executed by big mining companies on the South Region of Ecuador, the vulnerability of nature and other elements that make it up has increased, leaving as a result a place whose conditions are not appropriate to live or exercise agricultural activities that served as a livelihood Given said Constitutional rights violation, there has been raised multiple Constitutional legal actions, but the Judges role, as rights guarantors, has not been reflected on their decisions, allowing the Government to continue producing irretrievable environmental damages when subscribing said contracts and therefore, denying to the citizens to accomplish the Constitutional ideal called;buen vivir&; (;Peaceful living&;)