After 18 days of organizing and mobilizing a National Strike that was met with government violence and racism, the Ecuadorian Indigenous movement has emerged victorious! Thanks for doing your part by calling on President Lasso to stop the repression.

Earlier this week, Indigenous leaders and the government entered into a dialogue, and yesterday they signed an agreement including an end to the National Strike and the "state of emergency" declared by the government. Among their key victories are a repeal of Executive Decree 95 promoting oil and gas expansion and a reform of Executive Decree 151 affecting the mining sector. Both decrees authorized the government to expand the extractive frontier into Indigenous territories and important conservation and forest areas.

The reform of the mining decree is particularly notable because it states that mining activities are prohibited in protected areas or Indigenous territories, in designated “no-go” zones, archaeological zones, or water protection areas, and it guarantees the right to free, prior, and informed consultation (not consent) as set forth by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Ecuador’s highest court.

Fuel prices will also be reduced to a fixed rate, an economic justice victory acknowledging Ecuador's cost of living crisis. A working committee will spend the next 90 days addressing the remaining demands of the protesters.