 A lot of people from the oil industry started speaking up right away. It said, like, this can't happen. The country's going to go to hell. Oil has been a savior for us, and Ecuador can't afford this. That's Kimberly Brown. I'm a freelance journalist based in Quito, Ecuador. For the past two years, Kimberly's been covering the Keep It in the Ground campaign and the referendum vote that followed. Oil's been a linchpin of the country's economy for decades.