February 2016
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
9h 55m
English
Over the next year, as Ecuador prepared to auction off its precious forests to oil companies, I wrote several blogs condemning Correa’s decision. Among the responses I received was one, in late 2011, from an executive at a Chase bank near where I lived in South Florida.
“You rant and rage,” he wrote, “about the horrible things happening in places like Ecuador. What about here, in your own country?” His e-mail ended with an invitation to an early dinner.
I joined him on the veranda of the River House in Palm Beach Gardens. Our table had a view of the Intracoastal Waterway and the parade of multimillion-dollar ...
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