his party is good, they rightfully got a massive popularity boost out of leading the protest movement of the last few years. the dude is a serious right wing stooge though who the powers that be forced as their candidate
Yeah the rest of the party does not like him much, and CONAEI (which is the indigenous movement as a whole) itself also does not. However, a lot of indigenous will vote for him most likely because of how pissed (rightfully too) the indigenous communities are at Arauz and Perez is for all his right wing pro US talk still saying he will throw the IMF out of the country and cease extraction operations in the interior. Correa supporters have really long term fucked their relations with indigenous living inland with their extraction policies and it's likely the conflicts with CONAEI will continue to escalate regardless of who wins the election.
Pérez certainly seems better than the openly neoliberal candidate Lasso, who appears to have lost the first round; however, it's important to remember that he had actually supported Guillermo Lasso's candidacy in the 2017 presidential elections. Lasso has also reportedly said he’d support Pérez in the 2nd round. There unfortunately are a plethora of red flags with Yaku Pérez:
According to Leonidas Iza, an indigenous leader and president of the Indigenous and Peasant Movement of Cotopaxi, Evo Morales did not invite Yaku Pérez to the inauguration because the Pachakutik candidate celebrated the right-wing dictatorship in Bolivia. Pérez also never condemned the Anez regime's massacre against indigenous protestors. He has instead accused Morales and Correa of “authoritarianism, machismo, extractivism, and populism.” Evo has backed Aruaz. Yaku rooted for the socialist Maduro and Correa governments to "fall":
Does anyone know anything about the Indigenous-rights candidate he is up against?
The other guy is very pro-America which is never something I want to hear
https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1359173946541760515
his party is good, they rightfully got a massive popularity boost out of leading the protest movement of the last few years. the dude is a serious right wing stooge though who the powers that be forced as their candidate
Yeah the rest of the party does not like him much, and CONAEI (which is the indigenous movement as a whole) itself also does not. However, a lot of indigenous will vote for him most likely because of how pissed (rightfully too) the indigenous communities are at Arauz and Perez is for all his right wing pro US talk still saying he will throw the IMF out of the country and cease extraction operations in the interior. Correa supporters have really long term fucked their relations with indigenous living inland with their extraction policies and it's likely the conflicts with CONAEI will continue to escalate regardless of who wins the election.
Pérez certainly seems better than the openly neoliberal candidate Lasso, who appears to have lost the first round; however, it's important to remember that he had actually supported Guillermo Lasso's candidacy in the 2017 presidential elections. Lasso has also reportedly said he’d support Pérez in the 2nd round. There unfortunately are a plethora of red flags with Yaku Pérez:
There seems to be a serious disconnect between Pérez and CONAIE with its rank and file.
Yaku Pérez has a lot of comments that raise doubt about his purported leftist credentials:
According to Leonidas Iza, an indigenous leader and president of the Indigenous and Peasant Movement of Cotopaxi, Evo Morales did not invite Yaku Pérez to the inauguration because the Pachakutik candidate celebrated the right-wing dictatorship in Bolivia. Pérez also never condemned the Anez regime's massacre against indigenous protestors. He has instead accused Morales and Correa of “authoritarianism, machismo, extractivism, and populism.” Evo has backed Aruaz. Yaku rooted for the socialist Maduro and Correa governments to "fall":