QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — President Rafael Correa threatened unspecified consequences Tuesday for a fiercely independent indigenous community in Ecuador’s Amazon that is harboring three political opponents who face prison for defaming him.

Correa angrily accused Sarayaku, whose 1,200 people belong to the country’s biggest indigenous group, the Kichwa, of acting above the law. The remote community is famed among the indigenous in the Americas for successfully resisting oil drilling.