Indigenous Commissions seek dialogue with the regime

Carlos Perez

The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), along with a technical committee of the ECUARUNARI, began an agenda of topics to be discussed in the possible dialogue with the Government.

Yesterday ECUARUNARI, a subsidiary of the highlands of CONAIE, led an expanded board of the organization that defined the issues to discuss. Despite this, the regime leader must create the minimum conditions as indicated by the organization’s president, Carlos Perez.

Some conditions are: to stop mining, the repeal of Executive Order No. 16 which regulates the operation of the Unified Information System of Social Organizations and Citizens, to return intercultural bilingual education, stop the criminalization of indigenous protest, also integrate transport reforms Community Transit Act, and stop taxes.

These actions causes the division of the organization by the government “practically they bully us but we are not afraid, we will not run out of the country, we’ll be fighting,” said Perez, who continues his radical stance and did not dismissed carrying out more marches.