Andrés Tapia Arias is an Amazonian Kichwa from Pastaza Province and a member of CONAIE. He is co-author with Andrés Madrid Tamayo and Leonidas Iza, President of CONAIE, of “Uprising: the October Uprising in Ecuador”, Resistance Books, London, 2023.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.