Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito on April 5 to arrest
former vice president Jorge Glas after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
Obrador granted him political asylum earlier in the day.… Read More Ecuador Police Storm Mexican Embassy to Arrest Ex-VP Jorge Glas
Canova, Paola. Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.… Read More Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco (Review)
Paige, Jeffery M. Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990-2005. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2020.… Read More Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia (Review)
Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito, Ecuador. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020.… Read More Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito (Review)
Gomezjurado Zevallos, Javier. Amor y sexo : en la historia de Quito. Quito: PPL Impresores, 2019.… Read More Amor y sexo en la historia de Quito (Review)
Lewis, Tammy L. Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters, 2017.… Read More Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions (Review)
Citation Flavia Freidenberg and Simón Pachano, El Sistema Político Ecuatoriano, Serie Atrio (Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador, 2016).
Velasco, Alejandro. Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015.… Read More Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela (Review)
A collection of essays on the construction and emergence of ethnic identities in the Ecuadorian Andes, edited by Marc Becker. The authors of the volume examine Afro-Ecuadorians and indigenous communities through the lens of politics, culture, religion, gender, and the environment to better understand the array of social problems facing the country. French sociologist Manuela… Read More Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorians Facing the Twenty-First Century: Marc Becker
Citation DeTemple, Jill Michelle. Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories: Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.
Citation Correa, Rafael. Ecuador: De Banana Republic a la No República. Quito: Debolsillo, 2012.
Citation Wong, Ketty. Whose National Music? Identity, Mestizaje, and Migration in Ecuador. Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012.
Citation Romero, Karolina. El Cine de Los Otros: La Representación de “Lo Indígena” En El Cine Documental Ecuatoriano. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2011.
El Ecuador en la Historia, by Jorge Nunez Sanchez, is a survey of national history from the pre-Columbian period to the modern nation-state, focusing more heavily on the twentieth century. The book sheds light on early indigenous protests of colonial rule, labor organization, and liberal reforms in the early twentieth century, as well as the… Read More El Ecuador en la Historia: Jorge Nunez
Citation Becker, Marc. Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2011.
Citation Lyall, Angus. “¿Para qué sirve la memoria? : memoria, poder y resistencia en una zona florícola en el norte de Ecuador,” July 2009.
Citation Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudi. Fighting Like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Citation Becker, Marc. Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
Citation Clark, A. Kim, and Marc Becker, eds. Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
Citation Williams, Derek. “Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador.” Hispanic American Historical Review 86, no. 2 (May 1, 2006): 409–11.
Citation Lind, Amy. Gendered Paradoxes: Women’s Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.
Citation Gallegos, Franklin R. La Insurrección de Abril No Fue Sólo Una Fiesta. Quito: Taller El Colectivo, 2005.
Citation Whitten, Norman E., ed. Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003.
Citation Gerlach, Allen. Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador. Latin American Silhouettes. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2003.
Lucio Gutiérrez, an army colonel who helped overthrow two previous governments, was elected president in a second-round runoff vote against banana-export magnate Álvaro Noboa. Leader of the “Partido Sociedad Patriótica 21 de Enero” party and allied with the Indigenous Pachakutik and populist revolutionary party Movimineto Popular Democrático, Gutiérrez ran on a reform and anti-corruption platform amid an ongoing political crisis that has seen the collapse of the South American nation’s financial system and dollarization of the economy.… Read More Ecuador Elects Army Colonel President in Runoff Vote Against Banana Magnate
