Name: Estefanía Gualpa

Level : A3

Read the article "Sitting on a Sack of Gold" and write a comment on it. this comment should have a topic sentence, supporting sentences, concluding sentence, and transitions. Your paragraph should have minimum 10 supporting sentences.

The Yasuní ITT project initiative has been a very controversial issue in our country. It is the political interests of the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and other countries associated with the exploitation of the oil in the Yasuní Park. At the beginning the president Rafael supported the campaigns to preserve the Yasuni ITT reserve. He was looking for an economic contribution from the world community. The Governments, Companies, and International Organizations didn't contribute to protect the Yasuni ITT reserve. There before, the President signed the ending of the Yasuni ITT Initiative in August 2013. Later, under government statement was approved the 1% of extraction of the oil from the parklands. I disagree but any nobody made anything about it. The media is controlled for the communication law which is trough government´s disposition, so they are controlling the information transmitted about the topic. The environmentalists are taking seriously the extraction impact of the oil from the Yasuni ITT reserve because they don’t realize how it can contribute to global climate change. Additionally, the government had called for a national referendum in October 23 that didn’t have a clear process. Why the government is interested in Yasuni ITT? The answer is very simple, the government wishes to exploit this area and spend the subsidies in the current government because the resources of this government have begun to decrease during this time.

It is not enough for the president to privatize higher education over the illusion of free in schools and colleges, but he also wants to destroy the green areas of this country. However, the use of advertising in his government channel confuses people, using ads to persuade the people. He said he will use advanced mining technology and that this does not affect the environment. if This fact is approved by the people´s ignorance. It is sure that people will regret for supporting a government that offers utopian hopes about the benefits of the exploitation of the Yasuni ITT reserve.