Ecuadorian Government Surrenders to Violent Thugs Once Again

The government of Ecuador has become so weak and incompetent that a small mob of uneducated fishermen are routinely able to threaten a World Heritage Site by utilizing threats and violence.
Once again the fishermen thugs of the Galapagos have bullied the government of Ecuador into giving into their demands.
Yesterday, the Galapagos National Park rangers were braced to defend the offices of the National Park and the offices of the Darwin Research Center. Forty marines were called in to reinforce the guards.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society sent a crew of volunteers to the Park to assist the rangers and to act as bodyguards to the giant tortoise Lonesome George, the last of his sub-species.
The fishermen had threatened to kidnap or kill Lonesome George unless the government gave into their demands.
And once again the government capitulated.


http://www.seashepherd.org/media_040529_1.html

I wonder who these fishermen sell to, I supect that sea cucumbers are not for local consumption. Globalization rears it's ugly head again.

nothing is sacred.