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Vaccination calms the storm in Ecuador – 29/07/2021 – Latinoamérica21 EditorJuly 29, 2021 6 Ecuador has been in the midst of a storm that has plagued the region since before the pandemic. But for the government, vaccination has become a wall that holds back the demands of the various social sectors, which show little patience with the resolution of their demands. Almost two months after Guillermo Lasso took office, his campaign’s main promise – 9 million people vaccinated in 100 days – is being fulfilled. Vaccine diplomacy has worked because the government has managed to bring millions of doses of different brands into the country. And its alliance with the private company has proven to be effective in terms of logistics and support. The president has thus regained some oxygen in the face of a scenario which is starting to become difficult due to the complexity of the economic crisis. ....
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Ecuador election: Analysts debate why neoliberal banker won By Michael Otto posted on May 4, 2021 Ibarra, Ecuador April 30 In the wake of the April 11 second round of the presidential election won by right-wing banker Guillermo Lasso, Ecuador has been torn by cleavages and violence from organized crime, whose roots are in the extreme poverty, rampant inequalities and elimination of the social welfare programs introduced by the 2007-17 government of Rafael Correa. Workers, Indigenous people led a general strike in Ecuador in October 2019 against austerity measures. The COVID-19 pandemic is a continuing nightmare, with hundreds of people on wait lists for a hospital bed. Here in the northern Andean city of Ibarra, more and more people are begging in the streets. ....
April 23, 2021 Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Nodal spoke with Leonidas Iza, president of the Indigenous and Campesino Movement of Cotopaxi (MICC), in between two elections. The first was the second round of the presidential elections, held on April 11, which saw neoliberal banker Guillermo Lasso elected with 52.3% of the vote, defeating Correista [supporter of former left-wing president Rafael Correa] candidate Andrés Arauz (47,6%), and with more than 2 million voters not turning up and a similar number casting blank or null votes. The second election will occur at the upcoming CONAIE [Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador] Congress, which will meet in the first week of May, and where Iza is a strong candidate for president. ....