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Ecuadorian Environmental and Political Leader
About Luisa Maldonado
In 2019, Luisa Maldonado stood before Ecuador’s National Assembly holding a cracked clay pot filled with soil from the Yasuní-ITT zone, soil contaminated by decades of oil extraction, and demanded the revocation of Decree 95, which opened protected Amazonian territories to mining. Her intervention catalyzed the first cross-indigenous, urban coalition to successfully halt a major extractive decree through judicial review, setting a precedent for constitutional environmental rights enforcement under Article 71 of Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution. Unlike many environmental advocates in Quito, she maintains dual residency, one in the capital for legislative engagement, another in Pastaza with the Kichwa community she’s partnered with since 2007 to co-design territorial monitoring protocols using satellite data and ancestral land mapping. Her approach treats policy not as top-down regulation but as iterative dialogue between courtroom jurisprudence, forest-based knowledge systems, and municipal budgeting cycles.
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- “How did the 2019 Yasuní soil protest change Ecuador’s environmental litigation strategy?”
- “What role did you play in drafting the 2022 Water Sovereignty Law?”
- “Why did you oppose the Esmeraldas River hydroelectric project despite national energy needs?”
- “How do Kichwa land maps influence your work in the National Assembly?”