Ecuador

August 27, 2024
Romina Green Rioja, Roger Merino, Nayla Luz Vacarezza

The lofty promises of plurinationalism remain an unfinished project. The Fall 2024 NACLA Report explores how plurinational politics are organized and articulated at the margins of state power.

September 5, 2024
Patricio Carpio Benalcázar

La constitución plurinacional del Ecuador marcó la historia al consagrar el compromiso al “Buen Vivir” reconocer los derechos de la Pachamama. Aún no se ha hecho realidad este cambio radical de paradigma.

August 31, 2024
Pablo Ortiz-T.

A pesar de una Constitución histórica, se imponen los intereses ecónomicas extractivistas por sobre los derechos indígenas. Permanecen obstáculos significativos para lograr cambios transformadores.

May 15, 2024
Pablo Ospina Peralta

Ecuador’s recent referendum results give popular backing to the president’s security agenda. In a country besieged by organized crime, security spectacles are part of a campaign strategy ahead of the 2025 elections.

February 9, 2024
Michele Bertelli

President Daniel Noboa’s tough stance on crime managed to reduce rates of violence and instability. But militarization is not enough.

November 30, 2023
Rebecca Wilson and Eliana Lafone

Over 100 activists and storytellers from across the Americas gathered in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon to forge an alliance against extractivism and illegal mining. 

October 20, 2023
Pablo Ospina Peralta

Tras un ascenso meteórico en medio de una campaña excepcionalmente violenta, un joven desconocido volvió a derrotar al correismo, dando paso a un incierto gobierno provisional.

October 20, 2023
Pablo Ospina Peralta

After a meteoric rise amid an exceptionally violent campaign, a young political outsider beat Correismo once again, ushering in an uncertain interim government.

August 23, 2023
Angélica María Bernal and Joshua Holst

Ecuadorians have chosen to safeguard the biodiverse Yasuní National Park from oil drilling, marking a major triumph for grassroots Indigenous and environmental activists against the fossil fuel consensus.

El conservador Daniel Noboa (der.) ganó a la correísta Luisa González (izq.) en Ecuador (Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador / CC BY-SA 2.0)
August 21, 2023
Marc Becker

Ecuadorian voters will now choose between two very distinct paths forward: a revival of social programs or more neoliberal economic policy.

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