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On June 13, 2022, a National Strike was launched by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), the National Confederation of Peasant, Indigenous, and Black Organizations (FENOCIN), the Council of Indigenous Evangelical Peoples and Organizations (FEINE), alongside social (...)
The current context clearly shows the application - in blood and fire - of neoliberal policies by the government of Guillermo Lasso, but also new understanding of what has been happening through these days in terms of strife and popular mobilization. It might seem hasty to outline the (...)
We will not allow another October 19…Since the morning of Monday June 13, this has been the message from the Minister of the Interior, Patricio Carillo who, together with Fausto Cobo, the chief of intelligence, is a key piece in the government’s repressive scheme.
Indigenous and popular (...)
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"The repression against the nationwide strike called by the indigenous movement in Ecuador has only increased since President Guillermo Lasso first declared a (...)
Leonidas Iza is free but a national strike continues in Ecuador, writes María Isabel Altamirano Solarte for ecosocialist.scot.
After 24 hours of illegal detention, Leonidas Iza was finally released.
Iza is president of CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador) , which is (...)
At 1am this morning, 14 June, in a joint operation by the Ecuadorean army and police, half a dozen vehicles intercepted the car in which Leonidas Iza, the President of Conaie, the country’s main indigenous organisation, was travelling. Leonidas Iza was pulled out and dragged away, in what Conaie (...)
On 11 April 2021, Guillermo Lasso (52,4%), the right-wing candidate, defeated Andres Arauz, the candidate supported by Rafael Correa and part of the Left, by 52.4% vs 47.6% in the second round of ballots for the presidential election. Lasso was elected thanks to the division of the Left, since (...)
As we write, the Ecuadorian indigenous movement is concentrated in various peaceful demonstrations of thousands of people in front of the provincial delegations of the National Electoral Council. They are demanding that the vote counting process be made transparent and that pertinent doubts (...)
The results of the recent elections in Ecuador express, as CONAIE says, the historical achievements of the people’s struggle, and ratify the need at this time for the unity of the countryside and the city. The results for the National Assembly, show that Pachakutik is the second electoral force (...)
Señor Lenín Moreno,
We hereby manifest our concern and our rejection of the repression unleashed upon the people’s mobilization in defense of their rights, in particular the collective rights of the Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities, Afro-Ecuadorians and Montubios: women, men, children, youth (...)
Statement by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) on the revolt triggered by austerity measures demanded by the IMF.
In recent days, an uprising of revolutionary dimensions has broken out in Ecuador. A mass strike by transport workers and a huge mobilisation of (...)
With a stubborn position that borders on political suicide, the government of Lenin Moreno, during the seventh day of massive and combative Popular Unemployment, has preferred to repress thousands of indigenous, students, settlers and workers who have risen throughout the country, by employing (...)
A giant dam was supposed to help lift Ecuador out of poverty. Instead, it’s part of a national scandal, and a future tethered to China. [The many photos – by Federico Rios Escobar for The New York Times – are not reproduced here. See the original article.]
REVENTADOR, Ecuador — The dam sits (...)
Dearest friends,
We want to publicly acknowledge the thousands of letters, embraces and messages that we have received from every corner of the world. We have, indeed, received an answer that for many, was unexpected: the Ecuadorean government has desisted in its intent to close Acción (...)
Acción Ecológica denounces the request made by Diego Torres Saldaña, Deputy Minister of Internal Security, to the Minister of Environment to set in motion an administrative procedure that would dissolve our organization on the ground that we have deviated from the aims for which we were (...)
Crises and disasters, like the recent earthquake in Ecuador, show that real solidarity comes not from opportunistic politicians but from society itself.
It is a well-known fact that, unfortunately, in natural disasters the ones most affected are always the common people, the same people who (...)
PRESS RELEASE: Over Five-Hundred Indigenous Women of the Amazon and Allies March for Climate Justice, Indigenous Rights on International Women’s Day
March 10, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PUYO, Ecuador, March 9, 2016 - In recognition of International Women’s Day, Indigenous Amazonian women (...)
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa is facing the most important challenge yet to his self-styled “Citizens’ Revolution”.
A range of indigenous groups, trade unions and leftist parties mobilised across the country on August 13. Their long list of demands included calls for land reform, opposition (...)
ON OCTOBER 3, 2013 after a marathon 10-hour debate, the Ecuadorian National Assembly approved the extraction of petroleum from the ecologically fragile Yasuní National Park. That decision was a dramatic reversal of a signature program of leftist president Rafael Correa to preserve the park. It (...)
The world is remembering Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who spent 27 years in prison on his way to defeating apartheid and becoming South Africa’s first black elected leader.
Now joining us to talk about Nelson Mandela and his legacy is Glen Ford. He’s the cofounder and executive (...)
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