Indigenous communities: communal forms of government and threats to the democratic life of peoples today

CLACSO, with the support of the Bachelor's Degree in Popular Education of the University of Valle of Colombia, organized the virtual dialogue "Indigenous communities: communal forms of government and threats to the democratic life of the peoples today" on Tuesday, August 11.

The objective was to generate a space for dialogue on the communal forms of indigenous government in order to know and recognize its institutional structure and the system of practices that organize collective life, as well as to identify synergies and tensions with the institutionality of national states.

Participated:
John Tapie (leader of the Indigenous Minga of Colombia)
Xochitl Leyva Solano (CLACSO Working Group “Bodies, Territories, Resistances” – Mexico)
Jesus Amadeo Martinez (Indigenous leader from El Salvador)
César Arturo Ugsha (Ecuadorian indigenous leader)
Hortensia Hidalgo (Chilean indigenous leader)
Gerardo Villegas Querejazu (CLACSO Working Group “Indigenous Peoples, Autonomies and Collective Rights”)

Moderated by: Carolina Jiménez Martín (CLACSO Working Group “Crisis and World Economy”) and Adriana Anacona Muñoz (CLACSO Working Group “Care, Affectivities and Posthuman Lives”)

Several CLACSO Working Groups participated

Activity with prior registration