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ECUADOR HANDS OVER GALAPAGOS ISLANDS TO BUILD U.S. MILITARY BASE  
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Edited by Ed Newman
December 17, 2024
Radio Havana Cuba
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_ The decision of the Noboa government to hand over these islands
goes against what the Ecuadorian people decided in the referendum to
approve the Constitution in 2008 regarding military bases. _

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Quito, December 18 (RHC)-- The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa,
ordered the handover of the Galapagos Islands for the construction of
a U.S. military base, due to the approval of the "Comprehensive
security project in the island region" and the "Instructions for the
application of cooperation agreements between Ecuador and the United
States" on December 10.

With this decision, also arranged by the Governing Council of the
province of Galapagos, the military cooperation treaties between the
United States and Ecuador signed by Noboa on February 15, 2024, come
into force.

By means of the decree signed in February of this year, Quito ratified
the Agreement with Washington on the Status of Forces, signed on
October 6, 2023, during the Government of Guillermo Lasso, in which
the military and civilian personnel of the Department of Defense were
granted privileges, exemptions, and immunity, equivalent to those
received by the administrative and technical personnel of the
diplomatic missions under the Vienna Convention, the above constitutes
the establishment of a military base.

In this sense, ships, military personnel, weapons, equipment and
submarines will be able to be installed in the Galapagos Islands, an
archipelago declared a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978.

According to the document, the objective of the US military
installation in the archipelago is to "operationalize the project in
order to face the shared security challenges in the province of
Galapagos, 600 miles (965 kilometers) from the Ecuadorian continental
coast."

The document also proposes "combating drug trafficking, illegal
fishing and other illicit maritime activities in this region of
Ecuador," as well as "preventing violent conflicts and other related
crimes between narco-terrorist groups fighting over drug export
routes."

World Heritage Site under imperialist claws

In an interview with teleSUR, sociologist Natalia Sierra explained
that the decision of the Noboa government to hand over these islands
goes against what the Ecuadorian people decided in the referendum to
approve the Constitution in 2008 regarding the prohibition of military
bases in the country.

"It is a wound to the sovereignty of the country, but also to a good
of humanity, because the Galapagos Islands are World Heritage Site. It
is absolutely illegitimate," Sierra said.

In the opinion of representatives of social and environmental
organizations on Galapagos, the rule flagrantly violates resolution
258 of the Ecuadorian Constitution, which establishes that it is
strictly mandatory not to carry out activities that may put the
fragile ecosystem of Galapagos at risk.

Former Deputy Foeign Minister Fernando Yépez said: "The National
Assembly must request information and oversee the security cooperation
agreements signed with the United States and their execution
protocols, which respond to the strategic interests of that country
and reflect the shameful submission of our foreign policy.   Wake up
Ecuador!"

Some experts say that this event is part of a military base that
imperialism began to construct at the end of World War II as a
strategy by the United States to impose itself in the Latin American
region, a key territory in terms of natural resources.

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* Galapagos Islands
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* military bases
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* Constitution
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* United States
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* Daniel Noboa
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