El proceso de incorporación política de los sectores indígenas en el EcuadorPachakutik, un caso de estudio

Abstract

Elites and political system in Ecuador have traditionally marginalized integration and participation in process of decision-marking of indigenous people, even if this sector of population were part of the founders of ecuatorian society. During the last three decades, situation has changed because indigenous people start to be organized and has became in important actor with incidence in political life. This work focuses on process of political incorporation on indigenous people in institutional frame in Ecuador. Particularly, it analyzes the period of time from use of alternative methods of political action to integration in institutions with uses of instruments of political participation of political system. In this frame, rol devolopped by organizations as Confederacion de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE) y por el Movimiento de Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik-Nuevo País (MUPPNP) are analyzed. Main hypothesis of this article is that process or rural modernization carried out by the State, the Catholican Church, NGO's and international organizations has facilitated the incorporation of rural indigenous sector into political system through community organizational development.