Ecuador: Shiwiar Nation Stands Up

Ecuador: Shiwiar Nation Stands Up   Luis Ángel Saavedra, 2011   Few Ecuadorians, even the indigenous community, know about the Shiwiar. Their history is not included in most school text books. Even the Secretariat for Ecuadorian Peoples and Social Movements, a government office, describes them in just a few lines.   There are just 727 people in the Shiwiar nation, and they are at risk of disappearing altogether as President Rafael Correa promotes an expansion of the oil industry in their...

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