Video documental sobre el museo del paro en los barrios de la ciudad de Quito

Abstract

This documentary video on the 2019 strike museum presents an approach to social struggles and the effect caused by the indigenous uprising in the country, human flows that took place in the days of October 2019, this type of communicative work manages to make visible no only the violence produced by the public force in the protests, if not rather it tries to show the flaws that the state has in its decisions through the creation of the museum of strike, place where citizen participation is developed with people who were also actors in the social uprising of October 2019, contributing with stagings that seek to call for the cultural awareness of struggle and social organization. The power acquired by the state over the Ecuadorian economy is analyzed. Economy that throughout history in Ecuador has been dependent on raw materials and cheap labor, which is administered by the great capitalist empire of the country and that also works with the government to favor its business wealth, also benefiting to the leaders on duty in Carondelet; administrative place of the Ecuadorian economy that currently presents a tariff crisis and deficit for loans with the IMF, controlling the economic life of the workers and citizens of the country. The unemployment museum is a site created for citizen interaction and participation that manages to maintain the ideals of social struggle and organization.