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Manuela Picq

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Manuela Lavinas Picq (born in France in 1977) is a Franco-Brazilian radical feminist academic, journalist, and political activist. She is married to Yaku Pérez Guartambel, a prominent Ecuadorian indigenous rights activist and politician.

Biography[edit]

Picq attended the University of Miami, where she received a PhD in International Law.[1] In 2003, she served as foreign affairs specialist for Republican Governor Jeb Bush of Florida and was a co-coordinator of civil society participation for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) ministerial meeting.[2]

In 2004, Picq moved to Ecuador, where she would serve in an academic capacity at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, 2016 she was awarded for her anti-correista activism with a scholarship as a "human rights defender", and two years later by the publication Global Americans, sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy. In 2005, she was member of Front Line Defenders, an NGO funded by the European Union, Taiwan, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations.[2]

Picq was a regular contributor to Al Jazeera English between 2011 and 2014, where she published revelations about corruption within the Rafael Correa government, including the Glas Viejó case, in which the father of Vice President Jorge Glas was involved.[3][4][5]

On August 21, 2013, Picq married in an indigenous ceremony Yaku Pérez Guartambel, who was serving as president of the ECUARUNARI.[6][7] Two years later, during the 2015 protests, she was arrested by police at a demonstration, and her visa was canceled the next day by Rafael Correa's Ecuadorian government. Picq fled the country on August 21 as a result of "legal limbo".[8][9]

After leaving Ecuador, Picq joined the Academics at Risk association, and would receive a short scholarship at the Free University of Berlin and is a visiting professor at Amherst College. Picq returned to Ecuador on January 15, 2018, following the inauguration of Lenín Moreno as President.[10]

In 2024, Picq won the International Studies Association's IPE Outstanding Activist Scholar Award for her remarkable blend of academic excellence and social activism.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Documental aborda salida del país de Manuela Picq y romance con Yaku Pérez". El Comercio. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  2. ^ a b "Ecuador: ¿golpismo judicial y electoral en marcha?". La Jornada. 17 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  3. ^ "Manuela Picq: "Me dieron la visa para minimizar el escándalo Assange"". Plan V (in Spanish). 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  4. ^ "Correa contra Manuela Picq: ¿quién dice la verdad?". Plan V (in Spanish). 2015-09-08. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  5. ^ "Manuela Picq, una estudiosa de la visión indígena". El Universo (in Spanish). 2015-08-23. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  6. ^ "Manuela Picq dio a conocer que el Registro Civil negó su matrimonio ancestral con Carlos Pérez Guartambel". El Comercio. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  7. ^ "Carlos Pérez Guartambel pidió visa de amparo familiar para Manuela Picq". El Comercio. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  8. ^ "Manuela Picq dejó Ecuador pero asegura que volverá". El Universo (in Spanish). 2015-08-21. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  9. ^ "El viaje de Manuela Picq". El Comercio. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  10. ^ "Documental aborda salida del país de Manuela Picq y romance con Yaku Pérez". El Comercio. Retrieved 2021-02-10.

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