Humberto Cholango

Manuel Humberto Cholango (born in 1976) is a militant Ecuadorian policy of origin Kichwa Kayambi.

Militant of the indigenous cause

Member of the Kayambi People, in the north of Ecuador, it militates very young person in the movements of native-born people which assert the recovery of their grounds, the right to practice traditional medicine and with being recognized officially within the state.

Humberto Cholango takes part in the inversion of the presidents Abdalá Bucaram, in 1997, and Jamil Mahuad, in 2000, with like means of actions of the strikes, the peaceful steps and civil disobedience.

Graduate under development local management and, it becomes in 2003 the president of Ecuarunari, the Confederation of the People Quechuas of the Ecuadorian Andes, one of the largest Indian organizations of the country. Humberto Cholango is " an intellectual organique" as well as its compatriot Shine Macas, president of the CONAIE and first Amerindian with becoming minister, but who resigned in front of the reversal of Lucio Gutiérrez, converted with the neoliberalism and supporting the pro-American line of the the United States.

Savage opposing to the neoliberalism, he is imprisoned during twenty-four hours in December 2003, because of his criticisms towards the pro-American policy of President Gutiérrez. Humberto also fought for expulsion, in April 2006, of the American oil company Oxy, established in the north of the country, in full Amazonia. But, he also fights on another scale, that of the Abya Yala, name given to the continent by the Amerindian S before the arrival of the Conquistador S.

Directing Coordination of the Andean Organizations (COIA), he wants to make become aware with native-born people that it is while being linked that they will manage to impose their ideas and their legitimate rights on the scale of the Latin America. A reiterated wish, in the presence of his/her friend and " frère" Evo Morales, first President Aymara of the Bolivia, at the time of IIIe Continental top of the People and Indigenous Nationalities of Abya Yala, which was held with the Guatemala in March 2007. Humberto Colango puts all its pugnacity and its abnegation at the service of the indigenist cause

Quotation

" We, Native-born people of the Andean zone, want to become not only one social movement but also a true force politique" .

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Official site of Ecuarunaril

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