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Uprising or Dictatorship in Ecuador

Iain Bruce — 2025-09-20T14:43:51Z

In the afternoon of Thursday, 18 September, the new, apparently right-wing leadership of CONAIE, Ecuador's powerful Indigenous movement, bowed to pressure and called an indefinite national strike - in protest at the removal of subsidies for diesel fuel, a move set to almost double the price of most basic necessities overnight.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Ecuador

What happened to the left in Ecuador?

Andrés Madrid — 2025-05-22T11:41:00Z

“The anti-capitalist left has not renewed its strategies after the October and June uprisings either. Its atomization and lack of material and intellectual resources prevent it from building a power project with its own identity. This vacuum paved the way for the Noboa clan to capitalize on the discontent.”

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecuador

Solidarity with Leonidas Iza, the Ecuadorean Indigenous leader – Against the far-right's plans to reform the constitution and destroy rights

Iain Bruce — 2025-05-18T15:29:27Z

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), and former presidential candidate of the Indigenous and plurinational movement, Pachakutik. They see him, and the communities, movements and struggles that he represents, as the main obstacle to their plans for a radical neoliberal reform to the constitution.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecuador

Ecuador: Indigenous Resistance and Political Challenges – an interview with Leonidas Iza

Iain Bruce, Leonadis Iza, Martín Mosquera — 2024-04-20T18:13:55Z

In an interview with Jacobin, Leonidas Iza, president of Ecuador's CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador - Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador), the country's main indigenous movement, discusses the government's repressive policy, militarization, and the expansion of drug trafficking while criticizing neoliberal policies and examining political debates within the indigenous movement and the left. The interview was conducted by Martín Mosquera and Iain Bruce.

- IV591 - April 2024 / Ecuador

We condemn the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador

Collective — 2024-04-11T08:58:38Z

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 of thinking.
The ultra-right-wing and neoliberal president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa Azín, presented two pretexts for his unacceptable action: that he acted to execute an arrest warrant against (…)

- News from around the world / Fourth International, Ecuador, Mexico

Ecuador's Indigenous movement calls for an international movement against extractive industries

Iain Bruce — 2024-04-05T09:14:15Z

“Most pressingly, there is a need for immediate expressions of solidarity with Palo Quemado and other communities resisting predatory mining on their land, and facing severe repression as a result. More strategically, as the President of CONAIE, Leonidas Iza explained in the news conference at the end of the II National Gathering, they see the need to develop as soon as possible this international network against mining and extractive industries, that can bring together all those resisiting these attacks on their communities and their environment.”

- IV591 - April 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Ecuador

Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin

Andrés Madrid Tamayo, Andrés Tapia Arias — 2024-02-07T12:53:49Z

“In short, the proliferation of drug trafficking in Ecuador is an acute symptom of the degradation of neoliberal capitalism and marks a point of no return between barbarism and a profound transformation of our country.”

- IV589 - February 2024 / Ecuador

“Indigenous peoples cannot continue to carry capitalist development on our shoulders”

Leonidas Iza — 2023-08-21T17:56:40Z

“In that sense, I believe that if we want to make a qualitative leap in the change that humanity needs right now, we must unite struggles at the global level.”

- IV583 - August 2023 / Ecology and the Environment, Ecuador

Yes to Life, Yes to Yasuní!

Iain Bruce — 2023-08-08T13:15:14Z

On 20 August, at the same time they elect a new president and a new National Assembly, Ecuadoreans will be voting in one of the most important environmental referendums of modern times. They are being asked if the government should leave the oil beneath the Yasuní national park in the ground, indefinitely.

- IV583 - August 2023 / Ecology and the Environment, Ecuador

New popular resistance in Latin America

Claudio Katz — 2023-02-07T12:02:14Z

Latin America continues to be an area convulsed by popular rebellions and transformative political processes.

- IV577 - February 2023 / Brazil, Haiti, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Latin America, Ecuador, Honduras