Ecuador Indigenous Movement Split as Leader Embraces Right-Wing Presidential Candidate – teleSUR

Some Indigenous leaders have increasingly aligned with Ecuador’s right-wing elite in the name of rejecting President Rafael Correa and his allies. As Ecuador prepares for a second and final round of presidential elections in April, Indigenous leaders of a historically progressive organization have tacitly sided with the right-wing candidate that has promised to rollback many of the social and economic gains of the past decade that have benefited the country’s poor and Indigenous communities. Read more>>