Ecuador is living under a state of exception sin Oct. 18 Groups of native Ecuadorians Wednesday staged their second straight day of protests against the government of conservative President ...

Iza was elected president of Conaie with a clearly anti-extractive agenda and to enforce the application of the 21 collective rights that protect the fourteen native nationalities of Ecuador.

“We did see a more visible police presence the first few months, but that had returned to normal,” says Harrison, stressing that believes the state of emergency “affected native Ecuadorians, ...