Colombia: Confronting the Dilemmas of Political Participation
Indigenous activism in Colombia has been remarkable, despite the small size of the country's indigenous population. The government's response, however, ...
Chile’s Mapuches Organize Against NAFTA
Indigenous organizations in Chile, especially those representing the Mapuche nation, have been mobilizing against government plans to enter into the ...
Mapuches Press for Autonomy
On July 25, over a hundred members of Chile’s most militant indigenous group, the Mapuche, burst into government offices in ...
An Interview with Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Rigoberta Menchu Turn, a Quich6 Maya, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 in recognition of her work on behalf ...
CONAIE’S Agrarian Law Proposal
The "Integral Agrarian Law," presented by ONAIE, consists of five main points: * Existing demands for land should be processed ...
Ecuador: The Unraveling of a Presidency
When Ecuador's Congress voted to impeach Presi- dent Abdalh Bucaram on the evening of February 6 by declar- ing him ...
The Making of a Transnational Movement
“Allpamanda! Kawsaymanda! Jatarisun!” (“For our land and our life, we shall arise!”) These Quichua words echoed in the streets as ...
A Sense of Possibility: Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement Takes Center Stage
At about 9:45 on the morning of January 21, a thousand protesters, mostly indigenous people from the Ecuadorian highlands, burst ...
