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	Ecuadorian Studies, September 2001, No. 1
		But Pachakutik's national leadership did present candidates for the Asamblea Nacional, opting for the mainstream path and pursuing their agenda of fomenting economic and social policies favorable to indigenous and non-indigenous "popular masses" within the framework of institutionalized power.
		Pachakutik as a political movement that claims to speak for all members of the country's popular classes, indigenous and non-indigenous alike, has emphasized these material goals in its appeals to voters.
		In 1996 he ran as the Pachakutik political movement candidate, whereas in 1998 he ran as the candidate of his political movement, Ciudadanos de Nuevo País, and was endorsed by both Pachakutik and the Socialist Party.
	www.yachana.org /ecuatorianistas/journal/1/beck/beck.htm (8286 words)

	washingtonpost.com: For Ecuador's Party Of the Indigenous, Back to the Streets
		But the president severed his alliance with Pachakutik after only seven months in office over economic policy differences, and expelled the four party members he had named to his cabinet as a reward for its electoral support.
		Pachakutik serves as the political arm of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, a national network of local organizations that has doubled in size over the past two decades.
		A prominent Pachakutik congressman, for instance, was lashed with nettles by party members in August after he failed to participate in a key vote.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A38082-2003Oct29?language=printer (1281 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		From the ministries and other public spaces held by Pachakutik members, the indigenous movement has shown ''its profound commitment and responsibility towards the country, as well as honest, transparent and upright handling of the public responsibilities entrusted to the indigenous movement,'' the statement added.
		Pachakutik members in the government included Agriculture Minister Luis Macas, Foreign Minister Nina Pacari, and Education Minister Rosa María Torres, as well as Tourism Secretary Doris Solís, several assistant secretaries, and public office-holders in provincial administrations.
		For example, Fernando Buendía, Pachakutik's economic adviser in the Finance Ministry, was berated for backing the loan agreement signed with the IMF and for stating that the multilateral body had taken a ''sensitive'' stance towards Ecuador.
	www.ipsnews.org /print.asp?idnews=19577 (1171 words)

	AGR Online/ World News
		The alliance formed by the Pachakutik Multinational Movement, the Democratic Left (ID) party, the People’s Democratic Movement (MPD), the Socialist Party (PS), and the New Country Citizens (CNP) party triumphed throughout the country’s Andean mountain region, in several Amazon jungle provinces, and in the capital of Esmeraldas, a coastal province bordering Colombia.
		The growth of Pachakutik, which won 19 city governments and five provincial governorships, demonstrated the increasing strength of support for indigenous and social movements in various regions.
		Pachakutik clearly demonstrated its capability in those city governments where it was reelected, and where it has governed through grassroots and indigenous “people’s town councils’’ that make budget decisions and decide on actions to be taken, said Lluco.
	www.agrnews.org /issues/72/worldnews.html (2402 words)

	New Internationalist: Growing from the grassroots - Latin America: Ecuador - Indigenous Movements
		Pachakutik, a new alliance of indigenous people with the urban and rural poor, is now part of the Government in Ecuador.
		The Pachakutik political movement was founded to contest the 1996 general election, when seven Pachakutik deputies were elected to Congress.
		Pachakutik (2), with its national and local community-based networks, delivered a large proportion of the rural vote that ensured the victory of Colonel Gutierrez.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_2003_May/ai_102274024 (1473 words)

	Anarchogeek: Commentary on Lucio and the Ecuadorian Left (dated) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Along with the Pachakutik the political party of the indigenous and campesino organizations they united behind Lucio Gutiérrez the former cornel as a single candidate for president.
		The ministries that MPD and Pachakutik got were minor and underfunded such as the ministries of environment and social welfare among others.
		To it's credit Pachakutik recently held a protest against Lucio's and by extension their own government and launched a 30 day consultative process with it's grassroots base communities.
	www.anarchogeek.com /archives/000182.html (1264 words)

	Ecuador - The challenges for the new government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In spite of the contradictions between the programmes presented at the first and second rounds of the election, and the change in class composition involved in establishing a government of national unity, the popular organizations maintain their support to the future government.
		The Pachakutik Movement, which has a perspective of arriving in government by the end of the decade, is sharing responsibility for what it considers to be a transitional government, jockeying for position with business and political sectors.
		Pachakutik is against the big monopolistic groups, especially of the coastal region, and will promote policies that favour their peasant and indigenous social base, strengthening the local governments under their control while capturing spaces of resistance within the State.
	www.internationalviewpoint.org /print_article.php3?id_article=263 (1585 words)

	Narco News: Ecuador’s Indigenous Vow to Oppose Plan Colombia
		However, Iza and Lluco now say that Gutierrez’s breaking of a campaign promise to limit activity at the US airbase in Manta, Ecuador, and his related sell-out on the matter of Plan Colombia, Washington’s multi-billion dollar military intervention into the affairs of Ecuador’s neighboring country, were key reasons for their new opposition.
		Both CONAIE and Pachakutik have been demanding a full government investigation into the fumigations’ effects on health and on the land, and have just scored their first victory on that front.
		Pachakutik’s experience in the Gutierrez government, said Iza, showed that the indigenous must look beyond their national borders to take real power.
	www.narconews.com /Issue31/article880.html (1406 words)

	Winne.com - Welcome
		The Movimiento Pachakutik is the descendant of the umbrella group of indigenous organisations, social movements and trade unions formed in 1996 that achieved immediate electoral success, winning several seats in Congress.
		Pachakutik rejects privatisation and opposes dollarisation on ideological grounds.
		Its main concern is to achieve a greater share of the budget for welfare and projects aimed at helping indigenous groups and minorities.
	www.winne.com /ecuador/bf03.html (1367 words)

	N A C L A
		Pachakutik, a Quichua word which means a fundamental and revolutionary change in the cosmology, first emerged out of the Ecuadorian Amazon late in 1995.
		Rather than representing a milestone in the history of Ecuador’s indigenous history, Vargas’ campaign tore at, and appears to have done great harm to, what was recently seen as the strongest indigenous movement in the Americas.
		Although still not a strong force on a national level, Pachakutik has been gaining strength in local races since its debut in the 1996 elections, particularly in highland and Amazonian communities where there is a dominant indigenous presence.
	www.nacla.org /bodies/body46.php (1890 words)

	globalinfo.org - Jan 16, ECUADOR (#27524) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the new cabinet, representatives of Pachakutik were appointed to the ministries of foreign relations, agriculture and livestock, education, and tourism, while the MPD was given the Environment Ministry.
		According to the electoral pact that brought Gutiérrez to office, Pachakutik had the authority to veto proposed members of the cabinet.
		Referring to her appointment and that of Macas, Pacari said at the time that "this amounts to recognition of the identities that are building Ecuador, and of a political project that integrates that diversity and seeks to promote the participation of social sectors that have historically been neglected and discriminated against."
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=27524 (1189 words)

	WASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the other side are Gutiérrez’s supporters, the largest of which is Pachakutik, the political arm of the national indigenous federation, CONAIE (Council of the Indigenous Nations of Ecuador).
		The indigenous, through Pachakutik, played a significant role in Gutiérrez’s win during the first round of elections and they consider themselves his direct partners in his bid for the leadership of the country.
		Their vigilance has recently paid off: Pachakutik and CONAIE have been included in the process that Gutiérrez’s political party is now initiating to develop the new government’s policies for various government ministries as well as a list of candidates for the president-elect’s cabinet.
	www.wola.org /publications/ddhr_ecuador_update_3.htm (3682 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Ecuador Indians protest against president as OAS General Assembly opens
		In gratitude, he named four members of Pachakutik, CONAIE's political party, to his Cabinet when he took office in January 2003, giving Indians a share of power for the first time in Ecuador's history.
		But the coalition fell apart in August 2003 when Pachakutik congressmen refused to support his decision to cut subsidies on food and cooking fuel.
		He fired the Cabinet officers who belonged to Pachakutik and sought the support of Ecuador's largest rightist party, the Social Christians, a party he savaged during the campaign.
	signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040607-1509-ecuador-indianprotest.html (537 words)

	Ecuador's Ruling Alliance Collapses Amid Scandal - PRAVDA.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The president wanted to pass a questionable labor reform bill was angrily resisted by the Pachakutik (country's largest indigenous tribe) cabinet ministers.
		As aforesaid, the Pachakutik helped put President Gutierrez in office seven months ago on promises he would help the poor.
		At the same time, a Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador spokesman called on its supporters to "mobilize." The Pachakutik also refused to vote another bill as the controversial "Administrative and Civil Career Law".
	english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=10682 (493 words)

	[R-G] Ecuadorean President Gutierrez breaks with indigenous party
		But >the conflict has a more complicated history > > > > >Pachakutik’s Reasons > > >One of the measures Gutiérrez proposed to the National Congress was >the creation of a 44-hour workweek, thus increasing the previous >official standard of five 8-hour workdays.
		Pachakutik’s >representatives not only opposed this measure, but also condemned it >as “neoliberal.” Gutiérrez was able to pass this and other similar >measures because of the Christian Social Party, whose representatives >supported every one of the president’s proposals.
		It was this alliance >with a group that has traditionally defended the interests of the >Ecuadorian oligarchy, more than the neoliberal legislation itself, >that irritated Pachikutik’s delegation.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/rad-green/2003-August/009977.html (1068 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Ecuador: Gutierrez Under Threat
		Pachakutik followed when Gutierrez courted the right-wing PSC for congressional support as his own Patriotic Society Party (PSP) rapidly dissolved.
		Lenin Cali Najera, national youth leader of Pachakutik, was gunned down in Guayaquil last July, and Leonidas Iza, president of CONAIE, was attacked upon returning from a conference in Cuba.
		The rally was organised largely by the PSC, despite the support of the more progressive Pachakutik and the presence at the rally of more radical parts of society.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=7280&sectionID=54 (1372 words)

	Narco News: A Fistful of Dollars
		The president’s pretext for breaking the alliance was that the Pachakutik Movement’s congressional delegation had voted against (or at least didn’t support) the government’s legislative initiatives.
		After an hour-long meeting, all the two presidents had to say about their conversation was that they had spoken about friendship, cooperation in the war on terrorism, and the financial assistance that the United could give to Ecuador.
		As you can see, kind readers, it not simply “not acting according to the alliance” that resulted in Pachakutik’s departure from the government (and with them the great majority of the social and popular movments)… it was many things, and the last one to explain is this:
	www.narconews.com /Issue31/article850.html (1278 words)

	Independent media centre - People's Colonol Wins Presidency
		Lucio’s party, the January 21 Patriotic Movement, campaigned in alliance with Pachakutik, the pluri-national political arm of Ecuador’s campesino and indigenous groups and a strong presence in Congress.
		In a smaller room to the left, though, slated for a press conference with Lucio, organizers suddenly realized an omission: in a backdrop hung only the Ecuadorian flag and the green and red banner of the January 21 Patriotic Movement.
		Hours after the backdrop's creation, a Pachakutik flag was added, creating a wobbly trio.
	ecuador.indymedia.org /en/2002/11/1120.shtml (1077 words)

	Ecuador: beyond the dollar coup
		and its political wing Pachakutik, which today has six deputies in the 123-seat unicameral Ecuadorian parliament, was one of the main groups involved in a popular uprising in January 2000 that shocked the world by seizing control of the government and parliament in Quito.
		Miguel Lluco, a former national deputy and national co-ordinator of the Pachakutik movement, is also convinced that his people’s horizons will have to widen: “Ecuador can’t be an exception in this process of globalization,” he says.
		The bloodless uprising in January, he acknowledges, was “the inevitable reflection of a global situation that has been imposed on us through dollarization and the globalization of currency exchanges, and which threatens to disrupt the development of our own political agenda.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2000_09/uk/doss23.htm (705 words)

	Indigenous uprising paralyses Ecuador
		It is widely believed that the government was responsible for the attack, and many people, Iza included, believe in the existence of a fllist of individuals, especially indigenous leaders, considered politically dangerous to the government.
		CONAIE and its political wing Pachakutik have long been critical of Gutierrez and his government, despite the fact that they were instrumental in getting him into power, and were part of the governing alliance until late last year.
		Pachakutik remained a part of the governing alliance, becoming increasingly critical, up until October, when it left in protest and disgust over Gutierrez's policies.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2004/573/573p19.htm (1086 words)

	FIRST INDIGENOUS MINISTER LACKS POPULAR SUPPORT
		Pachakutik, which recently held its national congress, issued a
		Coordinator of Pachakutik by a broad majority in the movement's
		as a parliamentary deputy representing Pachakutik from 1996 to
	www.thepioneer.com /international/sept29_minister.htm (932 words)

	Untitled Document
		The adoption of the proposed labor reforms was among the commitments that the government assumed in a loan agreement that Gutiérrez signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shortly after he took office on Jan. 15.
		Humberto Cholango, the president of Ecuarunari, the biggest CONAIE member organization, which represents the Kichwa people — the largest of the country’s 12 distinct indigenous groups — argued that it was necessary to break up the alliance because Gutiérrez was governing in a way that ran counter to the country’s interests.
		For his part, Iza underlined that as foreign minister, Pacari had emphasized Ecuador’s image of a peace-loving country that respected the self-determination of all nations, while Macas in the Agriculture Ministry had underlined the need for a policy of food sovereignty.
	www.agrnews.org /issues/239/worldnews.html (7430 words)

	americas.org - Gutierrez Loses Indigenous Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On August 6, three cabinet ministers, and other members of the indigenous Pachakutik movement, pulled out of the government, ending their participation in the country’s ruling coalition.
		A majority of the Pachakutik legislators voted against a Gutierrez-sponsored bill that would have increased public employees’ work hours without increasing pay.
		The breakup comes after weeks of disputes over IMF structural adjustments required in exchange for a $205 million loan.
	www.americas.org /item_13243 (175 words)

	Anarchogeek: Pachakutik breaks ties with Lucio's Government in Ecuador!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pachakutik breaks ties with Lucio's Government in Ecuador!!!
		With this split between the left political parties and their playing at being part of the government they can get back to organizing and repair the damage done by almost a year of demobilized social movements.
		In April i wrote a commentary which i never finished editing about the situation with Lucio, MPD, and Pachakutik in Ecuador.
	www.anarchogeek.com /archives/000184.html (200 words)

	News > Ecuador's Indians to stage massive protests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As early as next month, they will lead civil protests against his budget, which they say will hurt the poor.
		Pachakutik, the largest indigenous political party, backed Gutierrez but he cut ties with them and stripped his Cabinet of their party members.
		Analysts say he is now vulnerable to an overthrow like the one Indian leaders in Bolivia recently organized.
	www.indianz.com /News/archives/002267.asp?print=1 (139 words)

	Catholic Online - Cathcom - Indigenous movement demands resignation of president gutierrez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Borja depicted the current situation of the President, abandoned around fifteen days ago by half of his ministers, contrary to the economic reform proposed by Gutiérrez and disapproving of the voices of an alleged link to the drug-mob and currently struggling with a series of difficult issues, such as that of the native populations.
		In this regard, Antonio Posso, head of the parliamentary group of the Pachakutik indigenous party, announced that “the movement is preparing demonstrations to push for the President’s resignation.
		The Pachakutik party – concluded the indigenous leader venting ‘Bolivian’ perspectives of a popular uprising for Ecuador – “is very good at making corrupt governments fall”.
	www.catholic.org /cathcom/international_story.php?id=5160 (510 words)

	Towards a Latin America indigenous movement
		The significance of Pachakutik lies in the fact that it
		The essence of Pachakutik is unity in diversity.
		movements are aiming for, and that is where Pachakutik is heading.
	www.thepioneer.com /international/nov6_indigenous.htm (1698 words)

	Ecuador -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		) political honeymoon ended in August 2003 when his alliance with the Indian movement Pachakutik was dissolved.
		Gutiérrez was inaugurated on January 15 after having won election in November 2002 with the support of Pachakutik and his own January 21 Patriotic Society Party (PSP).
		Gutiérrez, a former army colonel who had participated in an antigovernment uprising in January 2000, had the support of leftist groups and the Indian movement Pachakutik.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9396290 (832 words)

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