More than 11,000 Indigenous people from the Indigenous and Campesino Movement of Cotopaxi, ECUARUNARI, and other organizations took to the streets of Ecuador’s Cotopaxi province on Tuesday to demand better conditions for rural communities. Tuesday’s protest was the largest mobilization in Ecuador in 2026. Indigenous communities denounced the lack of support from the right-wing government of Daniel Noboa, which has failed to invest in rural communities while granting increasing privileges, investment, and tax cuts to large agribusinesses and landowners. The mobilization also comes amid a severe drought, as changing climate patterns linked to the so-called Super Niño phenomenon have hit South America particularly hard. Indigenous communities have pointed out the irony: They are the ones protecting water sources in the highlands and natural reserves, yet lack access to that same water.

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