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{{Short description|Ecuadorian Indigenous leader}}
[[Image:Luismacas.jpg|right|thumb|Luis Macas.]]
'''Luis Macas Ambuludí''' (born 1951) is a [[Kichwa]] politician and intellectual from [[Saraguro]],<ref>[http://www.saraguro.org/ Saraguro.org]</ref>{{failed verification|date=March 2024}} [[Ecuador]].

Macas has honorary university degrees in anthropology, linguistics and jurisprudence. He was one of the founders of the [[CONAIE]] and of the [[Pluri-National Pachakutik United Movement - New Country|Pachakutik Movement]], and was member of the [[National Congress of Ecuador]]. In 2003 he joined [[Lucio Gutiérrez]]'s [[government]] as Minister of Agriculture, quit because of disagreements with his neoliberal policies.

Macas was vice-president of the CONAIE (''Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador'') from 1988 to 1991, and CONAIE president from 1991 to 1996 and from 2004–2008.

On May 24, 2006 Macas was proclaimed by the Pachakutik Movement as presidential candidate for the October 15, 2006 election. He came in seventh (out of 13 candidates), with just over 2 percent of the vote.

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==Related videos==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100626233758/http://cgs.illinois.edu/resources/webvideo/globalization-below Globalization from Below]. Lecture given by Luis Macas, Ecuadoran Indigenous Leader and Human Rights Activist. November 16, 2006. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

==External links==
*[http://www.luismacas.org/ Luis Macas Home Page]
*[http://www.conaie.org/ CONAIE.org]
*[http://risal.collectifs.net/mot.php3?id_mot=369 Entretiens avec Luis Macas]

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[[Category:Agriculture ministers of Ecuador]]
[[Category:Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador politicians]]
[[Category:Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country politicians]]
[[Category:Goldman Environmental Prize awardees]]


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