In the last five years, Latin America has entered a new political era with indigenous peoples at the center of these changes. The new governments in the region are promoting revisionist policies regarding past state violence and implementing new policies of indigenous dispossession. However, the observable trend denying indigenous peoples their basic rights, and their participation on issues affecting them, is not only an issue of minority politics, it also draws broader fundamental civil rights and liberties into question.
Author: Carlos Salamanca
Carlos Salamanca is a Colombian-Argentinean architect and holds a PhD in Anthropology from the École des HautesEtudes en SciencesSociales (EHESS) in Paris. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnicas (CONICET, Argentina). Since 2014 he has headed the Interdisciplinary Program "Espacios, Políticas, Sociedades im Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios" of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR). In June and July 2019, he was a guest researcher at PRIF.