The Andean country “saw its homicide rate rise from 5.8 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2017 (one of the lowest in the region) to 46.5 in 2023”, and is on track to surpass all other countries of South America, note The duty from January 12. This spiral of violence is based less on inevitability than on ideological divergence.
No Ecuadorian government managed to complete its mandate between 1996 and 2006, while the left-wing economist Rafael Correa, elected three times, governed the country from 2007 to 2017. This period of political and economic stability, even peaceful , ended when his immediate successor, President Lenín Moreno, made a neoliberal turn, claiming excessive debt and budget deficits inherited from the previous government. In exchange for a payment from the International Monetary Fund, the adoption of a decree on October 2, 2019 to liberalize the price of fuel caused massive demonstrations, the declaration of a state of emergency and the imposition of a curfew in the capital, Quito.
Despite the legal persecution of the leaders of the Citizens’ Revolution Movement and the sentencing of ex-President Correa to eight years in prison, this left-wing party has recorded a surge in popularity since the regional and municipal elections of February 5, 2023 in nine prefectures. , the most populous in the country, and fifty town halls, including those of Quito and Guayaquil, reports The diplomatic world of December. Exiled in Belgium, Mr. Correa proposes to the current president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, to form a government of “national unity”.
The involvement of rich countries in drug trafficking is not only measured by their demand for drugs, or even the illegality of drugs, but also by their control over the levers of capital.
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