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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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The Super Bowl and the inverted mirror of selective Latinidad

The exaltation of a selective Latinidad, celebrated as cultural inclusion, conceals internal hierarchies and deep inequalities in the migratory treatment of different Latin American communities.

Ecuador facing the voracity of hyperpresidentialism

Daniel Noboa risks repeating Ecuador’s history of hyperpresidentialism, centralizing power and weakening institutions in the name of security.

“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.