Blanca Chancoso Explained

María Blanca Chancoso Sánchez (born 1955) is an Ecuadorian educator and indigenous leader of the Otavalo people.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Chancoso was born in Cotacachi, Imbabura Province, Ecuador in 1955, in an indigenous family which had moved from the countryside into the town.[5] She studied in a rural college and has a bachelor's degree in educational sciences.[6] She was unusual in being a teacher who spoke both Spanish and Kichwa language, and began to organise the local communities. She established the Federación de Indígenas y Campesinos de Imbabura in 1974, and in 1980 was at the forefront of campaigns for bilingual education and the recognition of multinationality in Ecuador. She is one of the founders of ECUARUNARI (Ecuador Runakunapak Rikcharimuy or Confederation of Peoples of Kichwa Nationality) and of Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE).[7]

Chancoso has written on the theme of Sumak kawsay, which can be translated as "the plentiful life".[8] In 2014 she was a judge at the 2nd International Rights of Nature Tribunal held in Lima.[9] [10]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Blanca Chancoso . www.womensactivism.nyc . Women's Activism NYC . 1 August 2021 . 17 May 2018.
  2. Empujando el avance del feminismo decolonial . 51. Revista con la A . 1 August 2021 . es . May 2017.
  3. Web site: Narco News: "Ecuador’s President is a Puppet of the World Bank: Indigenous Leader Blanca Chancoso Takes on the U.S. Airbase in Ecuador and Other Impositions" . www.narconews.com . 1 August 2021.
  4. Web site: Líder indígena: "Pedimos el retiro del paquetazo económico, no la renuncia de Moreno" . www.telam.com.ar . 1 August 2021.
  5. Web site: Chancoso, María Blanca - Biografías de personas indígenas y por etnias . www.conapred.org.mx . 1 August 2021.
  6. Web site: Hernández . Hortensia . María Blanca Chancoso Sánchez indígena kichwa . Heroinas . 1 August 2021 . 21 November 2017.
  7. Web site: Ecuarunari . Swift Foundation . 4 August 2021.
  8. Book: Chancoso . Blanca . Sumak Kawsay Yuyay : antología del pensamiento indigenista ecuatoriano sobre Sumak Kawsay . 2014 . Centro de Investigación en Migraciones, Universidad de Huelva . [Huelva] . 978-84-616-8167-9 . 221–228 . 1ª . El Sumak Kawsay desde la visión de mujer. Originally published in 2010 in América Latina en Movimiento. Alternativas Civilizatorias: los viejos nuevos sentidos de humanidad, 453: 6-9
  9. Web site: Blanca Chancoso. International Rights Of Nature Tribunal. 5 August 2021.
  10. Web site: Chevron/Texaco Case. International Rights Of Nature Tribunal . 5 August 2021.

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