“The government may continue its attempt to render us invisible, but our struggle cannot be defeated. As long as there is injustice, as long as the profound inequalities between the urban and the rural remain, the indigenous movement will continue.”
Manuela Picq [1] spoke with Carlos Pérez Guartambel, the current leader of Ecuarunari [2] [es] (Confederation of the Kichwa of Ecuador), at an event co-sponsored by NACLA [3] (North American Congress on Latin America) and CLACS [4] (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University). NACLA [5]has published a transcript of the conversation.