Rafael Pandam

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Rafael Pandam (* 1963 in Morona Santiago ) is an indigenous association official from Ecuador . He belongs to the Shuar ethnic group .

Career

He is the son of Pedro Kanusa.

After the Cenepa war from January 26 to February 28, 1995, Rafael Pandam Shuar was Vice President of CONAIE and was sent by the Sixto Durán Ballén government on March 14, 1995 as the envoy of Ecuador to the UN Development Conference in Copenhagen. At the conference, Pandam played his expected role in criticizing Peru's position towards the indigenous peoples and reaffirming the Shuar's support for Ecuador's Amazonian sovereignty. The representative of Peru, Jaime StIGE, had to find native Peruvians in order to parry the diplomatic move of the Ecuadorians.

In the government of Abdalá Bucaram from August 10, 1996 to February 6, 1997 he was Minister for "Etnias y Asuntos Indigenas". Which he acted contrary to CONAIE's resolution .

In 2003 he was Vice President of the Confederación de Nacionalidades Indigenas de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana (CONFENIAE) and was appointed by the CONAIE as a consultant for foreign relations, which promised that the CONFENIAE would follow the policy of the CONAIE.

Since 2012 he has been chairman of the “Parlia- mento de las Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana” (Parniae).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ El Comercio Quito, October 17, 1996 according to Spiegel der Latinamerischen Presse, Die Leitstelle, 1996, [1] p. 248
  2. ↑ [2] , Kenneth J. Mijeski, Scott H. Beck, Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian indigenous Movement, 2011, p. 50
  3. ↑ KiPU 45, p. 42
  4. ↑ Consejo de Gobierno, Parlamento de las Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana, [3]
personal data
SURNAME Pandam, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ecuadorian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Morona Santiago