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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-10T09:00:00.000Z",
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    "Justice & Health",
    "Activism",
    "activists",
    "banking",
    "Banks",
    "Ecuador",
    "environmental activism",
    "environmental activists",
    "environmental defenders",
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    "Indigenous",
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  "textContent": "It was a sweltering January afternoon in the Amazonian town of Puyo when Andrés Tapia realized his daughter’s public school fees were due. Like many Ecuadorians, he reached for his phone to make a mobile transfer. Carrying cash is too risky these days. Ecuador is in the grip of an ongoing security crisis, with transnational […]",
  "title": "The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts"
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