That includes a series of laws used to restrict the rights and funding of environmental and Indigenous organizations and leaders. The “Social Transparency Law,” for example, allows the government to freeze defenders’ bank accounts, which has happened to prominent anti-mining activists in the country, inhibiting their work and ability to make basic transactions to buy food and support their families.

Ecuadorian anti-mining activists told Inside Climate News they’ve had terrorism and money laundering investigations pending against them for nearly a year, and fear the government could decide to arrest them at any time, even without filing formal charges.

Last fall, Noboa deployed the military to suppress nationwide protests against his policies, including oil and mining expansion. Two Indigenous defenders were killed during the demonstrations. One was Efraín Fueres, 46, who was gunned down during a protest march. Military officers then approached Fueres, who was lying in the street with a companion kneeling over his body. Armed officers surrounded the men and began repeatedly kicking the companion, video posted to social media shows.

Seems like it's the government doing the killing, or sanctioning the killing.

Which is the point I was making. The government is making a fuck load of martyrs, which gets more people to fight back, because that's their only choice.

Whereas in the first world countries, the government violence wielded against the people on behalf of the corporations, is more nuanced and less immediately lethal, and often more effective because of it.