yikes...Galápagos politics in NYTimes article

To Protect Galápagos, Ecuador Limits a Two-Legged Species

Apparently, the locals are being deported from the galapagos to accommodate tourists. one telling quote from the article:

“We are being told that a tortoise for a rich foreigner to photograph is worth more than an Ecuadorean citizen,” said María Mariana de Reina Bustos, 54, a migrant from Ambato in Ecuador’s central Andean valley, whose 22-year-old daughter, Olga, was recently rounded up by the police near the slum of La Cascada and put on a plane to the mainland.