In the two Andean countries with the greatest percentage of original peoples, Bolivia and Ecuador, there is a growing confrontation between the Plurinational State and the indigenous. While members of the two administrations claim the indigenous are being manipulated, social organizations demand that their sovereignty be respected. Underlying this conflict are disputes over common assets.
En los dos países andinos con mayor porcentaje de población originaria, Bolivia y Ecuador, se registra un enfrentamiento entre el Estado Plurinacional y los indios. Mientras los gobiernos dicen que están siendo manipulados, las organizaciones sociales reclaman que se respete su soberanía. En el trasfondo, la cuestión de los bienes comunes.
The sudden emergence of new actors in Peruvian society, namely indigenous peoples from the Amazon and women from the public sector, has demonstrated that the old centralist state, which serves the white and mestizo minorities, cannot play an integrating role in the service of a multicultural society.
Since Apr. 26, a state of emergency has been in effect in five northern provinces of Paraguay, which represent a third of the nation’s territory. The government maintains that there is an active guerrilla presence in the region, although it has never been able to prove its existence. However, what is certain is that acts of violence have been committed by mafia organizations and the government is trying to resolve the situation through militarization.
Brazilian anthropologist Omar Ribeiro Thomaz was in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12. He’s spent long periods of time there as a teacher over the last ten years. Despite being white and foreign, he speaks Haitian Creole and interacts with Haitians as an equal. His vision of the country after the earthquake and of international aid challenges ideas and images propagated by the media.
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