Jan 12

2016

"While on the surface, CBE (community-based ecotourism) projects support traditional knowledge and cooperation, in real-life, Indigenous communities are told they must be competitive as international tourism is pushed as imperative to survival along with other free-market prescriptions. Ultimately this amounts to cultural assimilation – or annihilation. As yesterday’s missionaries instilled the fear of God, today’s modern-day missionaries instill the fear of operating losses."

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part VI of an Investigative Report]

"How Indigenous communities, now saddled with intense pressure to allure, seduce and satisfy White privilege, can continue to evolve naturally under such conditions appears to be of little interest to White saviours. Again, as throughout history, the Achuar are presented as the lucky beneficiaries of Western development and ideologies, thereby, yet again, assigned to their historic role as the passive novelties/objects of rapacious colonial ambition."

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Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part VII of an Investigative Report]

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part VI of an Investigative Report]

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