Why in Ecuador are there 17 candidates for the presidency and more than 2000 candidates for assembly?
That saying that the skinny dog gets fleas applies perfectly to Ecuador, a dollarized oil country that lived 4 years of a political and economic redirection from the socialism of the XXI century to the savage neoliberalism.
Like other countries that have gone through these abrupt turns in South America, such as Argentina from Cristina Fernández to Macrí or from Lula and Dilma Rousseff to Bolsonaro, or from Correa to Moreno. In all cases, the countries enter an economic crisis, which in Argentina and Ecuador has enormous dimensions.
The people of Ecuador have relived the times of the 1999 banking crisis, there is no money, no work. It is a dollarized country that received more than 20,000 million dollars in 4 years in international loans without a stop. Its economy depends on oil and it has such instability today that, in addition to being unable to export due to damage to the pipelines, its price fell to zero dollars per barrel. The pandemic affected flowers, broccoli, the main export products of the Sierra, tourism, which depend on flights, which were stopped.
The pandemic rebelled the distribution of hospitals, public purchases of medicines, tests, supplies, equipment, the distribution of cards for the disabled between judges and assembly members, in exchange for sentences and votes, the non-payment of taxes, the importation of luxury vehicles, half price trips, etc. Justice disappeared, the police and the army were busy supporting the government at all costs, persecuting the correistas, drug traffickers, that common and atrocious crimes went unnoticed, and even the registration fees, licenses, there is no punctual payment of services basic in the government there are delays, over-invoicing, absurdities, stupidities. According to the Ecuadorian press, 83% do not believe in Ecuadorian justice, education suffered chaos since before the pandemic, as colleges, schools and universities became social sedatives, in order to stop the youth protest, which until 2002 , overthrew governments, the population was sedated with news, schools, colleges, which eliminated the evaluations of teachers and students and universities with free admission, which multiplied together with the pandemic the children, young people who neither study nor work. These young people compete with Venezuelans who come from a country, but who have an average of 14 years of education, while the average in Ecuador is still 9. and with the pandemic I work them. This led to protests in October, before the pandemic, and now produces a dramatic relocation of the population. There is a new wave of migration from Ecuador, and capital flight to the United States, or seeking and depending on their relatives in Spain and Italy.
This happens in the last year of Lenin Moreno's government, who can stay in power thanks to quarantine measures, and social distancing, the rich media and the US Embassy, which support him in exchange for two bases military and the use of the armed forces, police and justice in the war on drugs, against cocaine trafficking and the distribution of everything.
In this environment the elections become the distraction mechanism that allows Moreno to finish his term. For these elections, the number of candidates exceeds the historical maximum of candidates and parties that add 17 candidates for president, 17 for vice president and more than 2000 for assembly members. Of these 17 candidates and parties, 16 collaborated expressly or tacitly with Lenín Moreno and are now fighting for what remains of a devastated country, There are 16 scavengers that include indigenous people headed by Yaky Pérez, or billionaires headed by Guillermo Lasso, and Alvaro Noboa , and there are ex-presidents overthrown by their bad government such as Bucaram or Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez. The Moreno government turned everything that Ecuador has into political booty, from hospitals, to mines, oil wells, hospitals, universities, single teacher schools, embassies, scholarships, ministries, assembly members, mayors' offices, prefectures, nothing is safe. In addition, treason, collusion, lies, theft, illegality, cunning as part of politics, and daily living together, as intelligent behavior, and the opposite as naivety, clumsiness, foolishness, as shown by the behavior of the former vice president Jorge Glas.
Araúz's mission is to restore freedom to the correista martyrs, to vindicate the government and the image of Correa, to revitalize what were the 10 years of Citizen Revolution, the most important and transformative social event in Ecuador in the last 100 years, and it has to demonstrate that he is not another traitor from the highlands, as were most of the traitors of Alianza País.
While Correa uses publicity and memory as a political weapon, his opponents, the news, sentences and presumptions.
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