Reduction of assembly members in Ecuador: modifying everything to change nothing
Coauthor Gabriel Galán Melo
Ecuador will hold a new popular consultation that proposes constitutional reforms on issues such as the extradition of Ecuadorians, the autonomy of the Attorney General’s Office or the reduction of assembly members.
Popular consultation in Ecuador: is the cycle of anti-politics coming to an end?
On February 5th, Ecuador will test a new political reform exercise to modify the balance between participatory democracy and representative democracy established in the Constitution of 2008.
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.
Prison Crisis and Drug Violence in Ecuador
It is usual for criminal and state power to feed back into each other in societies where organized crime exercises informal sovereignty over populations historically abandoned by the state.
Early education to fight poverty and inequality
Educational programs for low-income families can reduce poverty and inequality by helping to level the playing field in which people cultivate their learning during the early years of life.
Ecuador resumes the constitutional discussion
Ecuador is preparing to resume deliberation on political reform and President Guillermo Lasso has formulated a list of questions to be considered for the popular consultation.
Ecuador: Between outburst and dialogue
The Catholic Church will lead the mediation in the next 90 days. There will be shocks and ruptures, in a country that needs to return to the path of pacification with social justice, recomposition of the citizen fabric and zero impunity for infiltrated criminals that took advantage of the crisis to sow terror.
Ecuador: Chronicle of a still unfinished victory
Co-author Virgilio Hernández
The closing of the conflict leaves the Government seriously weakened. The vote in the Assembly demonstrated its institutional weakness while the delay in agreeing to dialogue evidenced its inability to manage the country.
Is there a way out of the crisis in Ecuador?
The strike to demand a reduction in the price of diesel, among other claims, has turned into a really popular rebellion that does not seem to stop.
The timid advance of Ecuadorian women’s rights
On April 28, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court decriminalized abortion in cases of rape after upholding the unconstitutionality of Article 150 of the Integral Penal Code. However, the presidential veto limited its scope.