Statement rejecting the serious events in Ecuador
Latin American comrades, one week after the popular uprising in Ecuador, it is possible to draw some conclusions:
1. A historic struggle is being waged not only against the International Monetary Fund and neoliberalism, but also against colonialism and the Ecuadorian oligarchy.
2. The government of Lenin Moreno did not think that with its regressive economic measures in order to comply with the requirements of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) it was going to awaken a dormant volcano.
3. The narratives used by the Moreno government have not managed to delegitimize the popular resistance; from the discourse that it was only a strike due to the dismantling of the gasoline subsidy, it went to saying that it was a vandalistic minority influenced by some foreign agents.
4. The organizational and resilience capacity of indigenous organizations has led them to be one of the main actors in the days of popular resistance alongside students and workers.
5. The guarantor actors of neoliberalism have welcomed into their fold a government that refuses to negotiate, which has demonstrated its institutional weakness by resorting to police and military violence.
It is at this point that we want to delve deeper, because the government has used different forms of violence against the resistant people, ranging from a discourse that criminalizes resistance to the indiscriminate use of force, which has not respected age or ethnic group, going so far as to limit basic rights such as resistance and mobility.
We denounce violent acts by the police and military such as
Attacks on journalists https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/329797-equipo-rt-victima-represion-policial-ecuador
Gas attacks on hospitals and universities, beatings of protesters leaving some unconscious, https://www.facebook.com/conaie.org/videos/1146881552168296/
The use of ambulances as transport for repressive supplies https://www.facebook.com/prensanuestroamericano/videos/760166961109918/
We urgently call upon our comrades in Latin America to denounce the violence, oppression, and repression, and to make visible the struggle of our peoples, students, and workers, to actively commit to being spokespeople for a struggle for more democracy, and to ensure that our methodologies have a clear direction: for the freedom of our peoples.
October 2019
CLACSO Working Group
Participatory processes and methodologies
This statement expresses the position of the Working Group on Participatory Processes and Methodologies and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.
