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Indigenous leader dies in Ecuador Transit Amaguaña a hundred years

The Ecuadorian Transit Amaguaña recognized advocate for indigenous rights in this Andean country, died Sunday at 100 years age in his hometown Pesillo.

EFE "The loss of a leader in its 100 years, left as an inheritance to his people his unwavering struggle for land, water, education for their sons and daughters," the organization said Indian in a statement.

Humberto Cholango, president of the Ecuarunari , said: "Traffic heading Amaguaña left breast, for the indigenous movement, a huge loss and a big vacuum."

recalled that along with other personalities, Amaguaña started "the fight against the agrarian oligarchy and the recovery of land, bilingual intercultural education, to regain their dignity and rebellion of the indigenous movement."

Amaguaña added that Transit was repeatedly imprisoned by the government "accused of guerrilla warfare, only to reclaim the rights to their communities."

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May 11, 2009

Transit Biography Amaguaña

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Cayambe, Ecuador

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Pesillo Amaguaña born near Cayambe north of Quito. According to his biographers, was born in 1909, but the leader claimed that although he could not prove it was in 1903, ie 106 years ago. As a child knew the hard work of their parents on the estate of the employer, where he met Huasipungo pain, where blows were required to work for men and women throughout the week. Therefore, his rebellion and his efforts to end it.

knew of the need for land to plant and wanted to conquer it, and soon understood that the union of the Indians would be the strength of their race and agricultural unions first emerged in Ecuador. In 1931 he participated in the creation of these agricultural organizations in the country in 1931 in the first strike of agricultural workers and Olmedo Foundation the Ecuadorian Federation of Indians in 1944, with Nela Martínez and Dolores Cacuango.

Although at age 14 forced her to marry an older man, the marriage did not last long, because her husband did not want to join the struggle of indigenous peoples. Traffic Amaguaña learned to read and write in your trip to Cuba, because the country was banned education for indigenous people in the middle of last century.

Among his travels, Amaguaña was arrested when he returned from the Soviet Union because she was accused of arms trafficking in Russia. It was also questioned by attending meetings of the fledgling Communist Party and was active in protests. Also managed the repayment of their true huasipungos owners, the Indians who worked for years on the land without pay.

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