One of the most important stories in Latin American studies today is the emergence of left-leaning social movements sweeping across Latin America includes the mobilization of militant indigenous politics. Formed in 1995 in Ecuador to advance the interests of a variety of people's organizations and to serve as an alternative to the country's traditional political parties, Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement (Pachakutik) is an indigenist-based movement and political party. "Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement" is an extraordinarily valuable case study that examines the birth, development, and in this case, waning of Ecuador's indigenous movement.
