Abstract

MIRANDA CHAVEZ, Luís Rodrigo; SOXO ANDACHI, Jorge Washington  and  SAILEMA ARMIJO, Juan Giovani. Indigenous peoples and nationalities facing the ignorance of interculturality and pluriculturality in the COVID-19 pandemic. Dilemas contemp. educ. política valores [online]. 2021, vol.8, n.spe3, 00034.  Epub Aug 30, 2021. ISSN 2007-7890.  https://doi.org/10.46377/dilemas.v8i.2712.

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are executive decrees, ministerial agreements, and protocols for the handling of corpses, which do not contemplate the rights of indigenous peoples and nationalities by not allowing the delivery of the corpses for their funeral honors and subsequent burial in their ancestral territories. State actions, exercised by officials of the National Police, Ministry of Public Health, COE, in the application of existing protocols, obstructed the rights of indigenous peoples to the recognition of their ancestral customs and beliefs, which in the context of the health emergency, which should not be restricted absolutely, and intercultural criteria should have been applied to perform funeral rituals, with sanitary measures, which aims to validate their ancestral practices and customs.

Keywords : Indigenous nationalities; interculturality; pluriculturality; pandemic.

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