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Gabriel Hidalgo Andrade

Political scientist and lawyer. Professor at University of the Americas (Quito). Master in Political Science and Government from FLACSO-Ecuador.

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“I am a sheep” or the sacralization of politics in Ecuador

The nationalist, revolutionary, anti-liberal and anti-progressive elements place some of the Latin American personalist organizations in the antithesis of progressivism.

False consensus: how to impose the narrative of electoral victory in Ecuador?

Numbers are more categorical than stories in politics. Insisting on the false consensus of a hard vote is the strategy of those who want to show themselves as winners.

Lasso’s last card: dissolving Parliament

Faced with the threat of impeachment, the President of the Republic also has a possibility: to dissolve the Parliament.

Ecuador’s “black hole”

Since the end of the Cold War, organized crime has increasingly become the main source of revenue for terrorist groups around the world.