Indigenous Women on Building a Plurinational State in Latin America

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Over the past twenty years Latin American societies have been innovating a new culturally rooted form of democracy: the grassroots-driven construction of plurinational states that center Indigenous and gender justice. This panel features three Indigenous women congressional and political leaders of the movements for a plurinational state in Chile, Guatemala, and Peru: Elisa Loncón (Mapuche), Thelma Cabrera (Maya Mam), and Tania Pariona (Quechua). Settler colonial legacies, including neoliberal constitutions built amid authoritarian regimes, have legitimated the poverty, racism, and anti-Indigenous gendered violence that have most brutally impacted Indigenous women. Now Indigenous women are at the forefront of building inclusive, plurinational states that guarantee territorial autonomy, political participation, and gender justice.

 

Participants:

• Elisa Loncón (Mapuche), President of the Constitutional Convention of Chile.
• Thelma Cabrera (Maya Mam),Former presidential candidate of Guatemala.
• Tania Pariona (Quechua), Former Congresswoman of Peru.