„Ecuador and the world have lost an opportunity to shape a revolutionary initiative,“ said Alberto Acosta, Ecuador‘s former minister of energy and mines, and one of the chief architects of the so-called Yasuní-ITT Initiative, which Correa unveiled to the international community in 2007. „It was a giant step on the road toward post-extractivism.“

The initiative had called for leaving an estimated 850 million barrels of untapped Amazon crude in the ground in the Ishpingo, Tambococha, and Tiputini oil fields—the ITT Block—located inside Yasuní National Park.