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In late March, the Achuar Nationality of Ecuador (NAE in Spanish) held its Fourth Ordinary Assembly. More than 200 delegates participated, representing 68 communities.
Delegates ratified resolutions of other NAE assemblies and congresses, and the Inter-Federational Committee (represented by Achuar, Shuar, and mestizos of the Canton Taisha) rejecting the concession, widening, and contracting of oil blocks within indigenous territories.
NAE holds these assemblies each year to discuss important topics such as oil exploitation and other government policies as well as territorial management and human rights.
Larger CONAIE Federation Elects New Leaders
On April 17, the umbrella federation of all the indigenous nationalities of Ecuador, Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE in Spanish), concluded its Fourth Congress and elected the new leadership of the movement.
Humberto Cholango, of the Kichway federation, became president, while Pepe Acacho, a representative of the federation that governs all the Amazonian indigenous nationalities, was voted vice-president.
