• Title: RANSOM ON ENVIRONMENT?
• Guest: Ivonne A-Baki.
• Host: Chelis López
• Date: MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012
• Description: RANSOM ON ENVIRONMENT? Ecuador has promised not to drill the oil reserves underneath the richly biodiverse Yasuni National Park, in the Amazon rainforest, if the international community pays at least 50% of the value.
• Genre: News
• Location: Oakland, CA.
• Program Number: 6744
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 6744
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Environment
• Year: 2012
• Program Name: la_120806.mp3
• Length: 59:06 minutes (54.12 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

RANSOM ON ENVIRONMENT? Ecuador has promised not to drill the oil reserves underneath the richly biodiverse Yasuni National Park, in the Amazon rainforest, if the international community pays at least 50% of the value, about 3 and a half billion dollars, over 13 years. Is this ransom money for protecting the environment? Or is it a reasonable exchange?

Guest: Ivonne A-Baki, Secretary of State of Ecuador, Los Angeles, CA, http://mptf.undp.org/yasuni