José Ángel Quintero Weir

José Ángel Quintero Weir is a member of the Añu people of the Venezuelan state of Zulia, whose ancestral lands border Lake Maracaibo. He is coordinator of the Indigenous Studies and Cultures Unit and full professor of the School of Letters at the Department of Humanities and Education of the Universidad de Zulia. As an activist and an indigenous intellectual, he has spent many years taking part in the ongoing struggle of Venezuela’s indigenous communities.