(7 May 2025)
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Quito, Ecuador – 7 May 2025
1. Various of photo exhibition on the Salango Indigenous community
2. Various of briefing with members of the Salango community along with lawyers to explain their community’s case against the Ecuadorian state
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cirilo Macias, leader of the Salango Community:
"We ask the court (Inter-American Court of Human Rights) to allow us to have justice at the international level, due to the fact that in Ecuador the State abandoned the right to enforce sovereignty over an international interest of a Swiss who came to privatize a beach, who came to close ancestral roads and who came to dispossess lands from community members who never gave up their land to be privatized."
4. News conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alejandra Montero, lawyer for the Salango Indigenous Community:
"What we seek in this hearing is to make clear to both the Inter-American Court, to the attendees who are present at the hearing and especially to the agents of the Ecuadorian State, that there was a serious violation of their collective rights."
6. News conference
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Leonidas Iza, President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador:
"And here it is not only a struggle of the Indigenous Peoples, but it is a struggle as human beings, as Ecuadorian society. In this sense, it seems important to me, dear brothers, that we have managed to establish these mechanisms of diffusion, of socialization and that to a certain extent we can be sensitive to these struggles"
8. Cutaway of Leonidas Iza
9. Various of end of news conference
STORYLINE:
Residents from the Indigenous community of Salango in Ecuador on Wednesday said they hoped to find justice in the case of the sale of beaches they consider to have ancestral rights to, a dispute on which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will have a public hearing May 20.
In the case managed by the regional court, the Salango community argues the Ecuadorian government ignored their community rights by allowing the sale of 34 hectares of land in 2000 to a real estate company.
Indigenous groups, such the Salango are subject to collective rights in Ecuador, and selling any parcel of land must be approved all the community members.
During a news conference in the capital of Quito, Cirilo Macias, the leader of the Salango community, said they "never gave up their land to be privatized."
Various community members and formers leaders that are scheduled to appear on the hearing, argues that the sale have restricted access to the natural resources that have historically sustained their economy and cultural identity.
Alejandra Montero, a lawyer for the Salango Indigenous Community, said they want to make clear "there was a serious violation of their collective rights."
AP Video shot by Cesar Olmos
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