Lourdes Licenia Tibán Guala (born 15 October 1969) is an
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
ian lawyer politician and is currently a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and is considered one of the national leaders of the indigenous movement. She was one of the main opposition assembly members in the
Rafael Correa
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (; born 6 April 1963), known as Rafael Correa, is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation ...
government. She was also member of the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
.
[Lourdes Tiban]
National Assembly, Retrieved 26 February 2016
Life
She was born on 15 October 1969 in the indigenous community of Chirinche Bajo, in the
Salcedo Canton
Salcedo is a canton in the Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador. in 2014 it had a population of 70,000. The capital of the canton is San Miguel de Salcedo.
Salcedo is famous for its ice cream.
Salecdo is a canton that has 6 parroquias Cusubamba, Santa Luci ...
,
Cotopaxi Province
Cotopaxi () is one of the provinces of Ecuador. The capital is Latacunga. The province contains the Cotopaxi Volcano, an intermittent volcano with a height of .
Cantons
The province is divided into 7 cantons. The following table lists each c ...
. She left her home when she was 14, so she had to work in family gardens and later as a maid in Ambato. At age 19, she began studying high school at a distance.
In 2002 she graduated as a Doctor in Jurisprudence at the Central University of Ecuador and in 2007 she received the master's degree in Social Sciences at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences
Political career
Beginnings
She started her political life in 1997 as an advisor to Deputy Leonidas Iza. Years later, she became Undersecretary of Rural Development in the Ministry of Social Welfare under the government of
Lucio Gutiérrez
Lucio Edwin Gutiérrez Borbúa (born 23 March 1957 in Quito) served as 43rd President of Ecuador from 15 January 2003 to 20 April 2005.
Early life
Lucio Gutierrez, in full Lucio Edwin Gutiérrez Borbua, (born 23 March 1957, Quito, Ecuador), ...
, leaving the post when the existing alliance between the Government and
Pachakutik was broken.
In 2005 she became executive secretary of the Development Council of Nationalities and Peoples of Ecuador (Codenpe), since she served until 2009. During this time she met the then Minister of Finance, Rafael Correa, with whom, as she has indicated, had a discussion about the financing of the institution, a discussion in which it was supported by
Alfredo Palacio
Luis Alfredo Palacio González (born 22 January 1939) is an Ecuadorian cardiologist and former politician who served as President of Ecuador from 20 April 2005 to 15 January 2007. From 15 January 2003 to 20 April 2005, he served as vice presid ...
and which Tibán argued that it was one of the causes of Correa's departure from office. By 2009, with Correa in power, she had to resign from his position because of the criticism of the president against her, who called her "poor woman" and accused her of having spent funds from the Codenpe in protests against the regime. Tibán responded by denouncing the elimination of the budget to the Codenpe by the Government and asserting that the president's attacks constituted a retaliation for having personally participated in marches against the Mining Law promoted by the central government at that time.
Congresswoman
After leaving Codenpe, she announced her intention to launch herself as a candidate for an assembly member of the
Cotopaxi Province
Cotopaxi () is one of the provinces of Ecuador. The capital is Latacunga. The province contains the Cotopaxi Volcano, an intermittent volcano with a height of .
Cantons
The province is divided into 7 cantons. The following table lists each c ...
. In the 2009 legislative elections she won a seat in the Assembly by Pachakutik.
[ El Telégrafo. ]
Tibán le debe a los medios su posicionamiento nacional
'. (in Spanish) Retrieved 26 February 2016 She was part of the Rights Commission Collective, Community and Interculturality. She also held the second term as vocal of the Legislative Administration Council from 2009 to 2011.
During her period as an assemblyman she took a strong position against the Government of Rafael Correa. He was one of the main promoters of the campaign for the "No", during the
constitutional referendum and popular consultation of 2011. He also impelled the president to grant amnesty to those he called "persecuted politicians" of
2010 Ecuador crisis
The 2010 Ecuador crisis took place on 30 September 2010, when the National Police operatives blockaded highways, occupied the National Parliament, blocked the Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito and the José Joaquín de Olmedo Internat ...
, among which was one of his brothers, after the president declared before the international press that he sought "national harmony."
Months before the 2013 legislative elections, she was elected presidential precandidate by the Pachakutik movement. But once the
Plurinational Unity of the Lefts
Plurinational Unity of the Lefts (''Unidad Plurinacional de las Izquierdas'') is a left-wing political coalition in Ecuador, created in 2011.
History
In 2009, Pachakutik and the Democratic People's Movement (MPD) broke with the ruling PAIS Alli ...
was constituted (alliance between several movements and leftist parties that included Pachakutik), she went on to head the list of National assembly members for this group, Tibán, along with four other Pachakutik colleagues, were elected.
During the prelude to the 2017 presidential elections, she was again selected as the candidate for the presidency of the republic by Pachakutik, after winning the primary elections of the movement with 46.7% of the votes (surpassing Salvador Quishpe by almost twenty percentage points, who came in second place). However, at the end of September 2016 the decision of the movement to withdraw Tibán's candidacy and support
Paco Moncayo
Paco Rosendo Moncayo Gallegos (born October 8, 1940, in Quito) is an Ecuadorian politician and retired general who was Metropolitan Mayor of Quito from 2000 to 2009.
Career
During his military career, he was the Commander in Chief of the Army i ...
, candidate of the
Democratic Left, was announced.
At the beginning of 2017 she was appointed member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for the period 2017–2019.
Lourdes Tibán ha sido nominada representante de pueblos indígenas por las Naciones Unidas
References
External links
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1969 births
Living people
People from Salcedo Canton
Women members of the National Assembly (Ecuador)
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador politicians
Members of the National Congress (Ecuador)
Ecuadorian women lawyers
Central University of Ecuador alumni
Indigenous leaders of the Americas
Indigenous people of South America
Women indigenous leaders
21st-century Ecuadorian women politicians
21st-century Ecuadorian politicians