[WSMDiscuss] Yaku Pérez' ongoing critiques of Arauz & Lasso; Webinar en espanol, 17h (Quito) "Eleições no Equador, o movimento indígena e as políticas de esquerda", acontecerá na próxima terça-feira (Pablo Ospina, Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar)

Tue Apr 13 17:41:07 CEST 2021

Hi Patrick,

I have checked the time frame: the webinar starts at 5 pm Rio time (not
Quito - Quito is two hours behind Rio).
Best,
Lena Lavinas
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:27 PM Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:

> (*Perhaps the people are already tired of the violence, of extractivism,
> of that populist left, which is not a real, authentic left that is with the
> workers, with the teachers, with the indigenous class, with the open class,
> with whom we were reviled, persecuted, criminalized. Only before the
> international face does progressivism appear. It is a left that is actually
> camouflaged.*
> *.. *
>
>     *When Lasso said that he was going to open the polls to make the
> votes transparent (after the first round to clarify doubts whether Pérez or
> Lasso had obtained second place) and then he broke that promise, we were
> mistrusted. I think this party today will morph in six months, maybe less,
> into disappointment, frustration.*..
>
>   *  From my space, from the legal profession, from the academy, from the
> farm, that is, from taking care of food, taking care of water, I will
> continue to contribute to the country and create awareness that we have to
> take care of the planet. If we don’t want to die toast from global warming.*
> )
> Yaku Pérez to Radio France International:
> “Perhaps the people are tired of that populist left” by admin
> April 13, 2021
>
> After the second electoral round in Ecuador that gave the victory to
> conservative Guillermo Lasso, RFI exclusively interviewed the leftist
> indigenous leader Yaku Pérez, who obtained third place in the first round,
> with just 0.35% less of the vote than Lasso, the next president of the
> country.
>
> The general elections in Ecuador served for the conservative Guillermo
> Lasso to rise with the Presidency of the country in his struggle with the
> correista Andrés Arauz, although the figure of a third man, Yaku Pérez,
> should not be forgotten.
>
> The indigenous leader who was third by a slim margin in the first round
> and who unsuccessfully appealed to the contentious electoral tribunal to
> review the votes, has been the key man for Lasso to take the Presidency in
> what was his third candidacy .
>
> Pérez, a 52-year-old lawyer, declared an opponent of Lasso and a
> consummate anticorreist, placed third in the first round of February 7 with
> 19.39% of the votes, compared to 32.72% of the winner of the day, the
> economist left-wing Arauz, and 19.74% of the former right-wing banker Lasso.
>
> *RFI What is your personal analysis of the presidential election in
> Ecuador?*
>
> *Yaku Pérez:* (Considering that) in the historic there is a null vote,
> which was generally 10% and now it reaches 17%, and that we ran a campaign
> without spending a single penny, I think it is an election that is giving
> the country and the new President who has to listen to us. As we were no
> longer on the ballot, we no longer had greater enthusiasm. Many have said,
> including the ‘New York Times’, that the winning candidate of the first
> round does not appear on the ballots of the second round. That says a lot.
> We are outraged by fraud. But that is history and what we have to do is
> wish the new president-elect success. We will continue on our shore of
> peaceful resistance, in defense of water, ecology, community rights, and
> freedoms.
>
> *RFI Where do you think the votes you obtained in the first round have
> gone?*
>
> *AND P: *If we read the results, they would have gone to candidate Lasso.
> We win in 13 of the 24 provinces. (We win) throughout the Ecuadorian
> Amazon. And (in the second round) in the mountains and in the Amazon, Mr.
> Lasso wins. Perhaps the people are already tired of the violence, of
> extractivism, of that populist left, which is not a real, authentic left
> that is with the workers, with the teachers, with the indigenous class,
> with the open class, with whom we were reviled, persecuted, criminalized.
> Only before the international face does progressivism appear. It is a left
> that is actually camouflaged. It is a left that appears as a right that has
> been receiving the support of a billionaire such as Isidro Romero for the
> candidacy of correísmo.
>
> *RFI What do you expect from Guillermo Lasso at the head of the country in
> the coming years? *
>
> *AND P:*I wish you the best of luck. If he governs well we will be happy.
> But I doubt it. When Lasso said that he was going to open the polls to make
> the votes transparent (after the first round to clarify doubts whether
> Pérez or Lasso had obtained second place) and then he broke that promise,
> we were mistrusted. I think this party today (by your choice) will morph in
> six months, maybe less, into disappointment, frustration. Time will absolve
> us, it is the best judge. It takes time, but it is infallible.
>
> *RFI What will be your role in the opposition? *
>
> *AND P: *(I will do) what the voters say, what my people say, what Pacha
> Mamita says. I am not obsessed with a candidacy. If it is good, if not,
> nothing happens. From my space, from the legal profession, from the
> academy, from the farm, that is, from taking care of food, taking care of
> water, I will continue to contribute to the country and create awareness
> that we have to take care of the planet. If we don’t want to die toast from
> global warming.
>
> *RFI Are you retiring from politics? *
>
> *AND P:* I am neither retired, nor retired, nor active in electoral
> politics. This is not an obsession on my part. If the people ask me to be a
> candidate, then I will put all my contingents for the good of the country.
>
> With AFP
>
> ***
>
>
> <https://puc-rio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5b20164a8ad0d28c52b9378f8&id=175c94e58f&e=afb53c1371>O
> Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares Ibero-Americanos (Ei) convida para a
> série de encontros virtuais "*Diálogos com a América Latina: Dinâmicas e
> transformações na região*".
>
> Nosso próximo webinar, *"Eleições no Equador, o movimento indígena e as
> políticas de esquerda"*, acontecerá na próxima *terça-feira, dia 13, às
> 17h, *e contará com a participação de *Pablo Ospina* (Universidad Andina
> Simón Bolivar, Equador).
>
> Embora as eleições presidenciais do Equador tenham sido decididas em torno
> da polarização entre dois grupos políticos tradicionais – o caudilhismo
> correísta e o projeto empresarial neoliberal –, é evidente que estes não
> representam as agendas políticas dos movimentos sociais equatorianos. Nesse
> contexto, o movimento indígena, contando com o apoio de grupos
> ambientalistas, jovens e feministas, se coloca desde já como ator
> fundamental no futuro cenário político do país. Qual será o lugar desta
> força política alternativa no novo governo nacional? Que transformações sua
> atuação representará para a democracia equatoriana? Quais suas potenciais
> lições e efeitos sobre as eleições no Brasil?
>
> *Pablo Ospina* é historiador e antropólogo, docente da Área de Estudos
> Sociais e Globais da Universidade Andina Simón Bolívar, em Quito, Equador.
> É especializado no estudo de movimentos sociais, os conflitos ambientais, o
> desenvolvimento rural, os problemas agrários, a análise política e a
> construção do Estado na América Latina.
>
> **O evento será conduzido em português e espanhol.*
>
> Mais informações sobre o evento através do email iberoamericano at puc-rio.br
>
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