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Ecuador, October 2019: “it was a movement of youth, indigenous youth and more”

Interview with
Susana andrade
*

Santiago Bastos
*

Reception: February 19, 2020

Acceptance: February 24, 2020

* Santiago Bastos He has a degree in Contemporary History from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the ciesas. He was a researcher for flaccid-Guatemala from 1988 to 2008. He is a research professor at ciesas Southeast, while in Guatemala he is part of the Communication and Analysis Team El Colibrí Zurdo. His research is now focused on the effects that the dynamics of globalization are having on indigenous communities in Guatemala and Mexico. His latest publications include the compilation The recreated ethnicity. Difference, inequality and mobility in global Latin America (2019) and the monograph Mezcala, coca community. Community rearticulation and ethnic recreation in the face of dispossession. (2021), both published by CIESAS. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4837-9657

* Susana andrade She has a doctorate in anthropology from the École des Hautes Etudes de Paris. He has worked on religious conversions to Pentecostalism and Anglicanism by the indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador. Other of his research deals with heritage declarations and the history of anthropology in Ecuador. He is currently working with the recently contacted Waorani jungle group on the Protestant missionary evangelization process. She is a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Quito and in recent years has taught in France as a visiting professor. It has books and articles on the investigated topics.

Susana Andrade is an Ecuadorian anthropologist with a doctorate in Social Anthropology in Paris, at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences. She has been a visiting professor in France and a research professor at different universities in Ecuador. Now she is a professor of anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

His research has revolved around the conversion to Protestantism of Kichwas from Chimborazo province, religious identities and their relationship with political behavior. He has also worked on cultural policies, intangible heritage and anthropology in Ecuador.

After his presentation at the seminar of coves, Susana Andrade agreed to speak with the team of Encartes to catch up on the events that occurred in his country between October 2 and 13 of last year, when the issuance by President Lenin Moreno of Decree 883 on the elimination of the gasoline subsidy sparked a series of protests that ended in an uprising against neoliberal policies.

Combining his role as witness, participant and analyst of the experiences, he narrated the events that triggered the protests and went on to highlight the unforeseen role of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (conaie) in the facts, and the importance of the participation of young people in this taking of the organization's position, even under the effects of the harassment policy by Rafael Correa.

Afterwards, Dr. Andrade analyzes and positively ponders the outcome of the events several times: given the violence that was unleashing in the country, "there was a lot of maturity" on the part of the actors who decided to accept the solution proposed by the presidency.

As a result to highlight of these facts, our interviewee points out the importance of the generational change that occurred, for example, in the conaie and considers that the conflict has not been closed, since there is a lack of communication between the political actors that she describes as “failed interculturality”.