In Ecuador, Indigenous communities are denouncing the media-driven criminalization of their protests and ancestral knowledge, which they say is part of President Noboa's broader repressive strategy to silence dissent and legitimize state violence. teleSUR
00:00A in-equal, the indigenous peoples denounced the media criminalization of their protests and non-censual knowledge as part of the Novoa government's repressive strategy to silence dissent and validate state violence.
00:10In contrast to the criminalizing narrative of alleged kidnapping and torture of soldiers by indigenous peoples, Teller should obtain exclusive testimonies from its own military who confirmed that they were treated with respect for their physical integrity, dismantling a campaign of corporate disinformation in favor of President Novoa.
00:29The indigenous communities claimed to have exercised their jurisdictional right recognized by the Ecuadorian law after the violent incursion in Cotacachi that killed the Christian leader Efrain Fueres under the customs of indigenous peoples, held and subjected 13 representative repressive soldiers to a community trial, an act of indigenous justice that the ancestral leaders defended as a legitimate institution of response to state impunity.
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