María Amelia Viteri, María Fernanda Ugalde, y O. Hugo Benavides
En la lucha reivindicativa por los derechos LGBTQI+ y contra la transfobia, hay que elevar las diversas expresiones pre-coloniales de género y sexualidad.
Beyond harrowing scenes of overburdened hospitals and loved ones unable to bury their dead, Ecuador’s coronavirus crisis has also produced carceral involution: “immunological elites” stay home while the poor and working class must risk contagion and incarceration.
Electo bajo una plataforma progresista, el gobierno del presidente Lenín Moreno ha recurrido a la politización de la justicia y a la militarización de la política para reprimir a sus viejos aliados y electores.
Across the Andean region, movements against corruption, austerity, high costs of living, and undemocratic maneuvers also fight to change a political and economic model rooted in dispossession.
Elected on a progressive platform, the Moreno government has resorted to the politicization of justice and the militarization of politics to repress its former allies and constituents.
Ecuadorian Indigenous communities organized food, shelter, and domestic chores with the help of local volunteers, and proved the people’s power. But the anti-austerity fight might not be over.
