PhD in Political Science from the University of Salamanca. Director of the Research Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at the Central University of Ecuador and principal investigator of the Ecuadorian Conflict Observatory.
The militarization of internal security was justified as a response to the severe wave of violence that made 2023 the most violent year in the country's history.
As in any process of “democratic autocratization”, Noboa needs to mold the institutional context to his image and likeness as Chavez did in Venezuela, Correa in Ecuador, Bukele in El Salvador and Donald Trump in the United States.
