The Agrupación Ciudadana de Última Esperanza (ACUE) is a grassroots foundation based in Última Esperanza (Magallanes, Chile) that for the past 10 years has been promoting sustainable social development from an ecofeminist perspective. Its work places self-care and collective care at the center, from which it drives empowerment through critical thinking and access to prior, objective, and comprehensive information that makes visible the rights of women and marginalized groups, advancing toward a decolonial form of development with economic, social, and environmental justice.
From the local to the international level, ACUE has built ties with other movements resisting extractivist megaprojects across the Global South, as a way of breaking out of the “island” that Patagonia often represents and reconnecting with the broader social fabric—recognizing that from our shared vulnerabilities, we can recover genuine cooperation and interdependence.