Jan 4, 2014
An environmental activist, covered in fake blood and holding a doll, demonstrate in front of the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. The protest was staged as Ecuador's President Rafael Correa gives a televised speech related to his failed campaign to persuade rich countries to pay Ecuador more than $3 billion not to drill for oil in the pristine Yasuni rainforest preserve at the Amazonian region. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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