Reuters: Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa will keep promoting his initiative to protect the country’s Amazon region by refraining from drilling for oil, but warned on Thursday that his government will negotiate the deal hard. Under the Yasuni initiative, OPEC-member Ecuador would leave 850 million barrels of oil, worth $6 billion, underground in the Amazon as a contribution to countering climate change. In return for not extracting the oil, Ecuador is looking to donor countries to pay …