“Ecuador’s recent upheaval was intensely anti-market and anti-globalization. It was also an explicitly Amerindian-based movement, led by the National Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), and deeply, angrily ethnic in its mobilizing rhetoric. ‘The shamans say change is coming,’ thundered Fernando Villavicencio, one of Conaie’s leaders. ‘They say we are entering the age of the condor; they say that the Red Warrior has returned!'”

—World on Fire; note that I am not endorsing Chua’s analysis until I know at least a little bit more about Ecuador