After Ecuador’s former President Rafael Correa left power, the presidents who succeeded him initiated a process of social instability.
Ecuadorian poet and writer Yuliana Ortiz Ruano says public violence has become commonplace
After Ecuador’s former President Rafael Correa left power, the presidents who succeeded him initiated a process of social instability. Lenin Moreno, who governed Ecuador from 2017 to 2021, and the current president, the banker Guillermo Lasso, dismantled all the anti-neoliberal and anti-militarist scaffolding that Correa had established during his mandate.
There have been murders in the streets, clashes between armed gangs, and even the use of car bombs. The murders of the young mayor of Manta, Villavicencio, and now Briones creates a climate of widespread terror as the nation heads toward elections Sunday, Aug. 20th. Ortiz Ruano expressed that she had become so concerned by public violence that she had moved to the city of Guayaquil, a city that has its own share of violence.
Governmental management has been absent in Ecuador for a little more than six years, during which insecurity and general instability worsened, massive crimes took place in prisons, and murders in the streets, in the style of sicariato , became routine.