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Six months after the first round of planting, the team was ready to measure the 44 trees in one sample plot. Luiz Carlos Batista Lobato, a botanist who specializes in tree censuses, walked across the plot to document three trees that had died, many that were taller than him and one that was more than two inches thick. In a few years, Mr. Batista Lobato said, monkeys and armadillos would come to eat the fruits of different trees and birds would feast on the açaí berries, dispersing their seeds as they move around the forest. Watching the trees start to grow helped to dispel some of the skepticism that farmers across the region still have. “We end up feeling like following the same path,” he added, as he watched the sun set on a vast pasture.

Persons: Luiz Carlos Batista Lobato, Batista Lobato, ”, Djalma Soares, Mr, Soares Locations: Maracaçumé

☆ Ecuador lucha contra la peor ola de violencia generada por el narcotráfico
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Genevieve Glatsky | José María León Cabrera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Victor Moriyama para The New York TimesVictor Moriyama para The New York TimesCredit... Victor Moriyama para The New York TimesPolicías deteniendo a un hombre en mayo en Durán, en Ecuador. Durante la detención, la madre del hombre, Ana, insistía en que su hijo era un consumidor de drogas, no un traficante. Policías deteniendo a un hombre en mayo en Durán, en Ecuador. Durante la detención, la madre del hombre, Ana, insistía en que su hijo era un consumidor de drogas, no un traficante.Credit...Victor Moriyama para The New York Times

A total of 210 tons of drugs seized in a single year, a record. And all this chaos financed by powerful outsiders with deep pockets and lots of experience in the global drug business. Ecuador, on South America’s western edge, has in just a few years become the drug trade’s gold rush state, with major cartels from as far as Mexico and Albania joining forces with prison and street gangs, unleashing a wave of violence unlike anything in the country’s recent history. Fueling this turmoil is the world’s growing demand for cocaine. “People consume abroad,” said Maj. Edison Núñez, an intelligence official with the Ecuadorean national police, “but they don’t understand the consequences that take place here.”

Persons: ”, Edison Núñez Organizations: Prisons Locations: Ecuador, South, Mexico, Albania

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