The populist government of Rafael Correa had a clear vision of privatizing various sectors and state-owned companies, but in 2009 the proposal to privatize the water supply in Ecuador began and social and indigenous movements began to organize a national stoppage in May 2010 in which several organizations participated and there was a protest on the highways that paralyzed transportation in Ecuador.

The former Ecuadorian president, Lucio Gutiérrez, on December 16, 2003 had two popular events at the Carondelet Palace in Quito, Ecuador. The first was a meeting with several Quito schools for the beginning of the Ninth of the Child God, in which they gave away bags of candy, something typical of Christmas, and the second act was to give a populist speech with a machete to address their supporters from the balcony of the Government Palace in Quito. In the second act there were 500 Ecuadorians to show their support for the beleaguered president who later ended up being overthrown by a social mobilization.

On January 14, 2007, Rafael Correa and the prefecture of Cotopaxí organized an Ecuadorian shamanic festival in the town of Zumbahua, Cotopaxi. The shamanic party and a Catholic mass, which was to invoke the gods of the Andes, who "cleanse" bad energies and bless the elected president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa.

On October 27, 2004, In Guayaquil, activists from social organizations such as CONAIE, UNE, FENOCIN, FEUE, Frente Unitaro de Trabajadores FUT and Ecologists protested in the streets against the V Round of Negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement with the US by the government of Lucio Gutierrez , which takes place in Guayaquil.

On October 17, 2003, Since the stage of dollarization in Ecuador, there have been different economic and social crises, in which Ecuadorians took to the streets in different protests due to labor, economic, health, education, problems in production and indigenous peoples.

On April 27, 2007, the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, paid a visit to the oil zone of the Ecuadorian Amazon, in which he described as "dramatic" the environmental damage caused by the US oil company Chevron - Texaco in Ecuador and in indigenous peoples and nationalities.

On February 16, 2005, more than 70,000 people from Quito took to the streets of the Ecuadorian capital Quito, the date on which the revolts began to remove Lucio Gutierrez for his interference in the Justice and other political and economic issues. The Ecuadorians, especially from the CONAIE indigenous movement, the unions and the social groups, among them "Los Forajidos" considered the absence of the separation of democratic powers and the presence of the president's authoritarianism because he is a former military man who a coup in 2000 against former right-wing president Jamil Mahuad.

The Reventador volcano, 90 kilometers northeast of Quito, had one of its largest eruptions in November 2002. There were repeated explosions that generated ash mushrooms, constant columns of gas and lava flows that alarmed the population of different provinces of Ecuador.

In February 2008, 5 On February 29, 2008, there was an environmental disaster when 4,000 barrels of oil spilled and contaminated the Coca River, which supplied water to the city of Francisco de Orellana, in the heart of the country's Amazon.

In February 2008, 5 indigenous people were murdered by order of logging companies that radically exploit the Amazon area of ​​the Yasuní National Park, where the uncontacted Tagaeri and Taromenani peoples live.

In Ecuador there are 14 nationalities and several native languages ​​in the indigenous peoples of the Sierra, Costa and Amazon, which makes it a multilingual and multinational country. In 1992, the National Congress succeeded in decentralizing Dineib. The beginning was official in 1993 with the Bilingual Intercultural Education Model, then in 2000 the education directorates were organized by nationalities, within the framework of the different EIB zonal networks. The official languages ​​of intercultural relations are Kichwa and Shuar, the other ancestral languages ​​are of official use for indigenous peoples depending on the area they live.

The CONAIE marched through the streets of the capital Quito to request the dissolution of Congress and present to the elected assembly members the proposal to be constituted from the social organizations of the countryside and the city.

The oil exploitation in the Ecuadorian Amazon zone left several environmental and health damages in the peasant populations and in the indigenous peoples and nationalities, especially the Cofanes, Secoyas, Kichwas, Waoranis peoples and in the territories of uncontacted peoples such as the Tagaeris and Taromenanes.

ECUADOR HISTORICAL MEMORY. 2022-04-15. El Chota-Ecuador 2002-04-01. The Afro-Ecuadorian people of Valle del Chota, Mira canton, on the border of the provinces of Imbabura and Carchi, celebrate the Catholic festival of Holy Week in a special and devout way.

Quito-Ecuador 2002-10-30. Social, indigenous, trade union and environmental organizations carried out a series of protests against the summit of the Free Trade Area of ​​the Americas (FTAA).

It is a group of negative photographs, scanned and re-edited to put together a historical memory archive of Ecuador and other Latin American countries.

Indigenous faithfull of Saraguro, Ecuador, take part in the traditional ceremony of Descent of the Angel during Easter celebrations on Sunday, on April 24, 2007 in Saraguro, Ecuador

Indigenous people from the town of Guamote, in the province of Chimborazo, Ecuador, handled dollars for the first time, after former president Jamil Mahuad decreed the change from the sucre to the dollar. The dollarization in Ecuador decreed by former president Jamil Mahuad, began on January 9, 2000, through a monetary measure, which was the disaster of the official currency of Ecuador until that moment, the sucre, and passing to the dollar.

Papá Roncón, is a legend of the marimba in Ecuador. Guillermo Ayoví Erazo, which is his original name, was born in a town in Esmeraldas, Borbón in 1930 and at a very young age he began to play the marimba, taught by the Chachi, an originally people from the Ecuadorian coast.

In Majagual, Olmedo parish, in the Esmeraldas province, northwest of Ecuador, the Afro communities that live there preserve the tallest mangroves in the world. The Majagual mangroves reach a height of up to 65.2 meters and are distributed over an area of ​​200 hectares.

Mascarilla is one of the 38 communities of the Afro-Ecuadorian Valle del Chota, in the province of Carchi, in Ecuador. The Mascarilla community was established as such, after its population managed to survive the slave process. Its population has its origins in the slaves taken by force from West Africa and who were taken to populate the banks of the Chota River.