Del Paro Nacional al Diálogo entre el Movimiento Indígena, las Organizaciones Sociales y el Gobierno Ecuatoriano

The article shows, first, the significant historical background, as well as the contextual elements that allow us to understand the National Strike in Ecuador, called by the indigenous and social organizations on June 13, 2022, as the result of both a long-standing historical process at the same time as a response to the hardening of Ecuador's neoliberal policies during the neoliberal governments of Lenín Moreno (2017-2021) and Guillermo Lasso (2021-). Second, it analytically describes various aspects of the dialogue between indigenous and social organizations and the Ecuadorian government, from the signing of the Peace Act on June 30, 2022, to the agreements produced by the ten thematic roundtables endorsed by the parties on October 14, 2022. It is concluded that the mobilizations of 2019 and 2022 showed new features with respect to those of the 1990s: growing disconnection with the non-indigenous middle classes; transformation of the role of the armed forces to that of repression; and active presence of the urban indigenous and the indigenous merchant middle class.