- Luis Macas
Luis Macas Ambuludí (born 1951) is a
Kichwa politician and intellectual from [http://www.saraguro.org/ Saraguro] ,Ecuador .Macas has university degrees in anthropology, linguistics and jurisprudence. He was one of the founders of the
CONAIE and of the Pachakutik Movement, and was member of theNational Congress of Ecuador . In 2003 he joinedLucio Gutiérrez 'sgovernment as Minister of Agriculture, quit because of disagreements with his neoliberal policies.Macas has been president of the CONAIE ("Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador") from 1990 to 1996 and since 2004.
On
May 24 2006 Macas was proclaimed by the Pachakutik Movement as presidential candidate for the October 15, 2006 election. He came in seventh (out of 13 candidates), with just over 2 percent of the vote.Related videos
* [http://www.cgs.uiuc.edu/resources/webvideo/macas_globalization.html Globalization from Below] . Lecture given by Luis Macas, Ecuadoran Indigenous Leader and Human Rights Activist. November 16, 2006. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
External links
* [http://www.luismacas.org/ Luis Macas Home Page]
* [http://www.conaie.org/ CONAIE]
* [http://risal.collectifs.net/mot.php3?id_mot=369 Entretiens avec Luis Macas]
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