Ecuador has dropped out of a trade pact with the US, claiming it had become an instrument of "blackmail" as it considers asylum for Edward Snowden.
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/ 11 January 2005
A blue butterfly flutters out of the green thicket, pauses for a few seconds before disappearing in the trees. ”Whenever one of these butterflies flies, then the soul of a dead one flies,” our guide Kistupa Peas, an Achuar Indian, deep in the jungle of Equador tells us. The next town is 12 days away by foot. There is only pristine rainforest where the Kapawi river flows into the Pastaza, one of the arteries leading to the Amazon.