R as the most Country Email List combative of the popular environmental organizations. In the campaign for the elections on February 7, Pérez made a radical but viable proposal: optimize oil exploitation in the regions where it already exists, but not expand the extractive frontier. Respect, Country Email List with vigilant environmental conduct, Country Email List The most well-known recent internal conflict in the indigenous movement occurred at the time of the selection of the Pachakutik candidate for the last presidential elections.
Jaime Vargas, a Shuar Country Email List leader from the southern Amazon and president of Conaie, and Leonidas Iza publicly complained about the selection process, which in their opinion was organized to favor Pérez. Vargas associates himself, like most of the Country Email List Shuar leaders, with the more "ethnic" currents, while Iza is closer to the "classist" ones. Again, ideological labels flow easily in the heat of ever-changing, ever-present Country Email Listcombinations. No recognizable twist, just a constant negotiation and coexistence of two dimensions of a political identity in tension.
This type of internal Country Email List dispute over candidacies is traditional and frequent in Pachakutik. However, the great massiveness of the vote in indigenous areas in favor of Pérez in 2021 denies that there has been a significant division in the Conaie bases. These seemed to feel Country Email List well represented electorally by Pérez. It was, therefore, a conflict between leaders, buried by an avalanche of votes. That dispute, however, especially with Iza, will surely come up again in the future. But it is clear that the political weight of Yaku Pérez has increased enormously within Conaie after obtaining almost 20% of the votes. An Country Email List individual figure has emerged for the first time that electorally strengthens the social and organizational weight of Conaie on a national scale. The situation seems comparable to that of Evo Morales in Bolivia after the 2002 elections, when he obtained more than 21% of the vote and surprisingly came.