Delfín Tenesaca

Delfín Tenesaca (* 1963 in Mayorazgo , Chimborazo Province ) is an Ecuadorian farmer and politician with an ethnic Kichwa background ( Puruhá ) and has been chairman of the indigenous organization ECUARUNARI since 2009 .

Delfín Tenesaca was born as a member of the Kichwa ethnic group Puruhá in the village of Mayorazgo (Chimborazo) as one of eleven siblings, three of whom died as children.

At the age of 19 he learned the theology of liberation as a student of the Catholic bishop of Riobamba Monseñor Leonidas Proaño . He turned down the offer to pursue a career as a priest on the grounds that he was an indigenous man, that he was sinful and that, being poor, had no resources.

In 2005 he was elected president of the alliance of the indigenous movement Chimborazo (Confederación del Movimiento Indígena de Chimborazo) COMICH for three years . In December 2009 he succeeded Humberto Cholango as chairman of ECUARUNARI , to which he was unanimously elected.

Delfín Tenesaca is married to María Victoria Cujilema, who is four years his junior, with whom he has two daughters and three sons and who lives in the community of Shuyo near Riobamba .

See also

• Indigenous Movement in Ecuador

Web links

• Quién es Delfín Tenesaca? (Spanish - Who is Delfín Tenesaca?)
• “El Gobierno y la derecha nos quieren usar” - Delfín Tenesaca, seguidor de monseñor Leonidas Proaño y titular de la Ecuarunari, abre fuego contra el régimen: “Una argolla rodea a Correa” (vistazo.com)