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.
Ecuador and the new law on the legitimate use of force
The National Assembly of Ecuador approved, with an absolute majority, the law for the legitimate use of force. The real purpose of the law is not to change the norm but to send a message.
Guillermo Lasso, one year of political uncertainty
The first stumbling block for the Executive has been to govern without the backing of the Assembly, while the streets are experiencing a wave of demonstrations that include acts of vandalism never seen before and a rampant increase in crime and violence.
Vaccination calms the storm in Ecuador
For the government, vaccination has become a wall that has been containing the demands of the different social sectors. But the lack of answers to their demands could lead the country to a new social explosion.
Ecuador: between power struggles and good governance
For the new administration everything will depend on three factors: the capacity of the Executive to include popularly supported and transversal measures, the cohesion of the benches in the Assembly under a governance logic, and social conflict.
Ecuador’s election and the corsi and recorsi of Latin American politics
Latin America is a particular region in many respects. Of course, politics could not be less so. Unpredictability, ups and downs, euphoria and depression, periods of economic boom and fulminating crisis. Lefts and rights.
The “the october strike” and human rights in Ecuador
The report of the Truth and Justice Commission on the events that occurred during the protests of October 2019 was recently presented in Ecuador. The report concludes that there were alleged human rights violations committed by members of the National Police and Armed Forces against the population.