Symposium speaker

I attended the symposium from Deborah J. Yashar titled "Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge". Yashar discussed the importance of indigenous movements in Latin America and their effects on the countries in which they are occurring. Yashar provided evidence that they were good for the countries. She explained why countries are trying to stifle these movements and whether or not they were making any progress. According to Deborah Yashar, these movements are overcoming the governments and are making positive strides in there countries.

Yashar claimed that some people are against indigenous movements because they feel that indigenous people do not have enough resources for their movements to be successful. She showed though pictures and other charts including the influences on the countries economies, that these movements prove differently and that they are in fact helping the countries instead of hurting them. In fact these movements are to both change the citizen regimes and change the economies of these countries and the movements have been having more positive effects than negative ones.