Drama of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Chile due to the pandemic, elections and US interventionism

Ecuador and Colombia Peru are experiencing their most dramatic moments in the pandemic and this is due to a common history and neighborhood.

In the case of Ecuador, the country has gone through elections in which Guillermo Lasso won in a dubious way, after a questioning victory over Yaku Pérez, the candidate of the indigenous movement Pachakutic. In this election according to a complaint published on the internet, it is indicated that there was the clear interventionism of the United States to take Guillermo Lasso to the presidency and avoid at all costs the return of correismo, this is from the followers of Rafael Correa, this complaint published on May 15 we put them together to the president talk. But also in Ecuador, there is an extraordinary dependence on oil, and this oil since 1974 is a business of the North American transnationals. On the other hand, Ecuador is at this moment a strategic site for the Pentagon, since it has a military base in Galapagos and another military base in Manta, which allows the United States extensive control in the South Pacific.

At the moment the main problem that the Lasso government has is vaccination and the so-called economic reactivation, in a dollarized country and the most economically hit on the Pacific coast, which does not have a good presence in the National Assembly and that its main Allies are the indigenous people called Ponchos Dorados or indigenous people who have been manipulated by the North American government, through USAID, scholarships, foundations or donations and even the evangelical religion, these indigenous people are also the owners of the territories from which gold and oil are extracted in Ecuador.

Ecuador is currently experiencing the pandemic, but it is also experiencing the Goldrush like Peru, because numerous deposits have been discovered and there is the illegal exploitation of miners in the Province of Esmeraldas in the area of ​​the Santiago River in the province of Imbabura, now in the province of Cotopaxi, for centuries in the province of Azuay, in the province of el pro or the province of Zamora Chinchipe, plus the new mines in the province of Morona Santiago. These are veins of gold are in territories normally of protected areas, or indigenous territories, handed over to the ethnic groups in the government of Rodrigo Borja, in 1990, or in páramo that are the origin of the rivers, which encouraged Yaku Perez to be the indigenous candidate who defends watersheds. Ecuador is now one of the largest exporters of gold in South America, with the presence of Australian and Canadian companies, and it is also now one of the most important exporters of copper, run by a Chinese company.

The big problem is fundamentally centered in the city of Quito, which is the city that has the largest number of retired civil servants bureaucrats. Students, and university professionals, who have been laid off, have lost their jobs, or who have to study or work from home, which has ruined the capital of Ecuador.

 During the Lenin Moreno government, many of them lost their jobs, which gave rise to a great wave of unemployment, multiplied in the year and a half of the pandemic, and curiously, those who were most affected by the previous neoliberal government, precisely the people from the cities of the Sierra, were those who voted for the neoliberal and Guayaquil banker Guillermo Lasso, who is the continuation of Moreno, despite having been the hardest hit by the measures recommended by the IMF, it is also inexplicable, why The women of Ecuador, who have been victims of the most radical machismo, both within the indigenous culture, as well as the cultural traditions of the Coast, Sierra, and Amazonia, curiously defend their exploiting males, who have always had them under their patriarchal rule In Ecuador, for example, we have the indigenous Diana Atamaint, president of the National Electoral Council, the Afro-Andean Diana Salazar, the attorney general of the nation. Ion and now to the president of the National Assembly Guadalupe Llori, Guillermo Lasso's greatest ally, this curious behavior of women favoring the traditional and macho extreme right was also seen in Bolivia with Jeannine Añez, the former opportunist president after the coup from state to Evo Morales, and now he is seen in Peru with Keiko Fujimori, who represents the oldest extreme right in South America, which comes from the times as viceroyalty of Spain.

The great struggle in Ecuador focuses on the dispute that exists between the Sierra and the Amazon against the coast, since there are two different cultures, on the Coast people are fundamentally an extroverted culture, while in the Amazon and in the Sierra, it is an introverted culture. On the coast, economic interests prevail, in the Sierra moral, religious or legal interests prevail. This is due to the fact that in the Sierra and Amazonia, there was always a greater influence of the Catholic and Evangelical Church, as well as of the governments, while in the Coast, the influence of the governments and the churches was always much less. But curiously, in these elections, the Sierra and Amazonia voted in favor of Guillermo Lasso, despite being a coastal candidate, and the Costa voted in favor of Andrés Arauz, Rafael Correa's candidate, despite being a mountain candidate. This is because in Costa, Rafael Correa has greater sympathy and in the Sierra, Guillermo Lasso and Lenin Moreno, his predecessor, as well as the North American Embassy and the owners of the big media, managed to arouse antipathy against Correa.

 In Colombia the situations are different. Colombia is the most violent country in South America since its independence in 1820, but it multiplied this violence starting with the intervention of the United States to seize Panama in 1903 and after the so-called War of the Thousand Days between liberals and conservatives. , wishing since 1900, which has created an internal struggle in that country, which does not end to this day. In Colombia, the struggle is between the borders and rural territories, which are in the hands of the guerrillas and drug trafficking, while the center of the country is in the hands of the army and the oligarchy. In that oligarchy that is of industrialists, exporters, and landowners, it has Alvaro Uribe as its axis since the year 2000. The former president of Colombia is the owner and lord of the decisions in the governments of Colombia and today he is the one who supports violence police, military violence, as a mechanism to stop protests. The protests in Colombia are based on the fact that a large part of the population does not find resources for their daily food, something that is unheard of in a very rich country in all aspects, but also the protests on the day have the support of the peaceful population and in the night of the violent, who are the drug traffickers and the guerrillas, the new economic and military power of that country, after 60 years of resistance to the Pentagon in the fields and 40 years of resistance by the DEA in the cities.

Just as the biggest problem in Ecuador is oil, in Colombia the biggest problem is cocaine, drug trafficking, violence and its borders. Well, narcotics, smuggling and human trafficking pass through it, because being the one located in the most strategic place in South America, with access to the Pacific and the Atlantic and having valleys jungles, mountains, almost impenetrable beaches, for the army, the police, or State institutions, without roads, electricity, drinking water, education or health, give it an enormous advantage to be one of the countries with the most facilities in Latin America for illegal activities.

In Peru things are different, the biggest problem in Peru is the weight of its army from the time of the Incas to the present day. It is a militaristic and jingoistic country, which borders 5 neighboring countries, only Brazil has more neighbors than Peru, and that is why it is so important in South America, and in this country, the rural population lives a very different life from the people of Lima. In the cities, there is a world where everything is informality and in the fields, there is another world, where everything is hard and manual work, with all kinds of over-exploitation, abuse, and evil, the elections have shown us that the right and the left in this country are completely opposite poles, that the middle class and intermediate parties have disappeared is a country soon to a confrontation between the inhabitants of the countryside against the great power of Lima, the capital that has more than a third of the population of the country. Peru is also for 500 years the land of gold and the mad gold seekers, and like cocaine, cocaine and gold are what define Peru's elections. Peru's wealth is generated in the fields and not in the cities since they are not highly industrialized cities. In the fields, this enormous wealth is regenerated, usually illegally, so that illegality and informality are forms that have acquired extraordinary cultural characteristics and dimensions.

The shaky government of Ecuador, the embattled government of Colombia, and the uncertain government of Peru are what mark the difficult time that South America and Latin America are going through. The protests in Colombia full of anger and of an enormous duration with unknown proportions, the uncertainty that Ecuador and Peru are experiencing, and the difficult Peruvian election, show us the critical situation of the countries of the Pacific Basin of South America, which also includes Chile, that he wants to leave behind Pinochet and his constitution, runaway capitalism and the chilling inequalities that he reached.