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, by BRUCE Iain
Since the re-election of Daniel Noboa as President of Ecuador on 13 April, his hard-right, Trump-like administration, and most of the Ecuadorean establishment, have launched a ferocious campaign against Leonidas Iza, the President of CONAIE (the Confederation of Ecuador’s Indigenous Nations), (…)
, by GALLEGOS RAMÍREZ Franklin, GUARDERAS BARRERA Augusto, OSPINA PERALTA Pablo
The April 2025 election in Ecuador confirms a global pattern: democratic institutions buckling under the weight of security-driven authoritarianism while progressive forces struggle to present compelling alternatives. Daniel Noboa, the 37-year-old son of a banana magnate, secured his presidency (…)
, by CALERO César
The progressive opposition candidate Luisa González, who was expected to win following her pact with the indigenous movement, alleges fraud and refuses to recognise the victory of the far-right leader.
Consumed by unprecedented violence at the hands of drug trafficking, Ecuador is following (…)
, by BRUCE Iain, IZA Leonadis
In this interview with Jacobin América Latina, Leónidas Iza, Indigenous leader and presidential candidate in Ecuador, analyses the profound economic, social and institutional crisis that the country is going through, marked by the advance of neoliberal policies, state repression and the (…)
, by Organizations linked to the Fourth International in Latin America
The violent police occupation of the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador on Friday 5th April, attacks two basic principles of diplomacy and civilized coexistence between nations: the principle of the inviolability of diplomatic headquarters and the right to asylum for any person persecuted for their way (…)
, by BRUCE Iain
The main Indigenous organisation in Ecuador, CONAIE, alongside the National Antimining Front (FNA), has adopted a proposal to begin to build a broad international front against mining and other extractive industries. It was one of 14 proposals made by the FNA’s II National Gathering, and comes (…)
, by PALEY Dawn Marie
Civil rights annulled. Soldiers in the streets, curfews enforced. Armed men in masks patrol neighborhoods. Packets of marijuana and boxes of money laid out and photographed. US State Department officials in formal dress shake hands with their local counterparts.
A group of soldiers arrives to (…)
, by OSPINA Pablo, RAMÍREZ Franklin, STEFANONI Pablo
The murder of a presidential candidate after a campaign rally shocks Ecuador just days before the elections.
The assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was the latest episode in a rapid and profound degradation of public life in the South American country, with an (…)
, by BRUCE Iain
As Iain Bruce reports, this was one of the key themes of a recent visit by Leonidas Iza, Ecuador’s main Indigenous leader, to Europe to launch the English edition of his book, [Uprising: the October Rebellion in Ecuador->https://resistancebooks.org/product/uprising-the-october-rebellion-in-ecuador.O
, by JARRIN HIDALGO Sofía
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 (…)
, by ARTEAGA Christian
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 (…)
, by Petition / Sign-on Letter
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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 (…)
, by ALTAMIRANO SOLARTE María Isabel
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 (…)
, by CONWAY Terry, Petition / Sign-on Letter
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 (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
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 a (…)
, by MACHADO Decio
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 (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers, Petition / Sign-on Letter
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, (…)
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 (…)
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