What has already been going on in African't is now happening in Latin American't with the help of faceless corporate accomplices. This first article takes place where the Climate Summit is hosted. It's there where American mining companies sold their claims to the ruthless Chinese whose government is presently putting on an environmentally friendly face. Deadly force against protesters has been legislated in and UNESCO threatens to pull World Wonder status from Machu Pichu, if the bought & sold regime there carries through a proposal to allow 10,000 tourist daily to visit the site:

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/11/perus_deadly_environment_host_nation_of

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http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/corporate_conquistadors_new_report_exposes_how

...they invited Lord Stern, who in 2006 wrote the really influential Stern Review, doing the economic case behind climate change, which led to a lot of action. And this guy is respected, and yet here he is lending his name to an event which was originally called "Why divest from fossil fuels when we have an abundance of low-carbon fossil fuel energy readily available?" So, you know, this is the fossil fuel industry trying not to change away from their dirty, destructive extractive model, and Lord Stern has lent his name to them. I mean, he&#8217]

Strange bedfellows:

http://www.mining.com/goldman-sachs-buys-bullion-from-cash-strapped-ecuador-55876/

...Goldman acquired 1,165 gold bars, worth roughly $580 million at today's ruling price.

Ecuador under socialist President Rafael Correa is seeking sources of cash "after borrowing more than $11 billion from China since defaulting on $3.2 billion of foreign debt...

http://www.mining.com/how-china-got-a-firm-grip-on-90-of-ecuadors-oil-63312/

...The Asian giant's recent foreign purchases include a 20% stake in Brazil's Libra oil field, a skyscraper near Wall Street, and the country's Lenovo tried, but failed, to buy Canada's Blackberry.

But these acquisitions pale in comparison to what records reviewed by Reuters are showing. According to a special report, China now controls 90% of Ecuador's oil, an OPEC nation.

Through a series of financing deals with state-owned oil company PetroEcuador, China has coaxed the Latin American country into submission...