Carlos Antonio Vargas Guatatuca
Carlos Antonio Vargas Guatatuca (born December 1, 1958 in Unión Base near Puyo ) is a former indigenous association official from Ecuador . From 1997 to 2002 he was chairman of the CONAIE , on January 21, 2000 he was part of a government triumvirate for 24 hours and from June 2003 to 2005 the country's social minister.
Career
His mother Eliseo Vargas was a naturopath and spoke one of the Zaparo languages , his father Acevedo Vargas was an iron and household goods dealer and spoke Kichwa .
Vargas was eight years old when oil was found in the neighboring province of Napo in 1967 . He experienced cultural discrimination against indigenous people, which made him an activist for land, language and social justice. He attended the school in Puyo and studied teaching for elementary schools. In Spain he studied the movements of the Basque and Catalan nationalists. He was then elected chairman of the Organización de Pueblos Indígenas de Pastaza (Opip), where he led the protest against environmental destruction by oil companies until 1994. In 1994 he became provincial director for bilingual education in Pastaza . In 1997, CONAIE elected him chairman for two consecutive terms. He was a member of the Fondo Indígena para América Latina y el Caribe FILAC .
In January 2000, he led the indigenous uprising that overthrew President Jamil Mahuad and was a member of a government triumvirate for 24 hours until the coup lost that office. In 2002 he ran for Movimiento Independiente Amauta Jatari for the office of President of Ecuador.
From June 2003 to 2005 he was Minister for Social Affairs in Lucio Gutiérrez's cabinet .
Entry into the government was viewed by CONAIE as treason and Vargas Guatatuca expelled. On the evening of April 19, 2005, protesters clashed with security forces, in which the Chilean photojournalist Julio García Romero died of heart failure through the use of tear gas. The clashes continued on April 20 and the Ministry of Social Welfare was set on fire.
Vargas was a pacifist and represented the philosophy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi .
Web links
Vargas in Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador
Individual evidence
- ^ Norman E. Whitten, Dorothea S. Whitten: Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia . University of Illinois Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-252-07479-0 ( google.de [accessed December 8, 2019]).
- ↑ Acosta se resiste a dejar su ministerio - MAY. 28, 2004 - Política - Historicos - EL UNIVERSO. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Kipu 44 Julio-diciembre 2004 . Editorial Abya Yala, ISBN 978-9978-22-493-9 ( google.de [accessed December 8, 2019]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vargas Guatatuca, Carlos Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ecuadorian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st December 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Unión Base, Puyo |