In some historical account, I read about the impossibility of defending against many enemies around you if you have no freedom of movement, because you have a cannon ball strapped to your ankle. This is what happens to the president Guillermo Lasso, who, although he renounced the associates he brought from his bank, with whom he came to rest, did not break the family relationship, it is a cannonball tied to his ankle. .prevents you from defending yourself. It is not about sentimental things, but about the state, the country, democracy. And the best way for the president to show his respect for the administration of justice is to respect the independence of the Prosecutor’s Office, not to withdraw the current investigating police officers and not to interfere in the reopening of the investigation process in Manta, which the Prosecutor’s Office has already requested, and this can have a serious political effect.

The dialogue between the government and social movements would return to ‘zero’ by renewing the ten-point program that prompted the national strike in 2022.

We saw that in a public act in Guayaquil, the new government minister intervened, and the president did not, which is healthy, because this avoids a direct confrontation with the president. If the impeachment is initiated, its qualification, admissibility, will depend on the Constitutional Court, which will have to decide whether the Constitution allows the National Assembly to prosecute the president more than once. Remember that the Constitution does not authorize the President to dissolve the Assembly more than once. The stability of the Republic depends on this interpretation.

Correísmo anticipates requesting a political trial against the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, for treason and omission

In the same legal framework, although from a private legal point of view, the announced criminal lawsuit of the president’s brother-in-law against the journalist Anderson Boscán for serious defamatory insults could have serious political repercussions. If the journalist is acquitted – which he most likely will be – the defeat would imply that his accusations were founded and the “Court of Public Opinion” will consider the president to have suffered a moral defeat. This happened to Marie Antoinette in the episode “The Queen’s Necklace”, in which she demanded that Cardinal de Rohan be condemned. Parliament declared the cardinal innocent, and the queen was morally considered guilty, even though she was never part of the trial.

Guillermo Lasso travels to Costa Rica, according to the trade agreement, on the day the report on the Encuentro case will be discussed

In the ongoing political drama, the problem of Leonida Iza and indigenous movements remains. They canceled the agreements with the Government, and irresponsibly accuse it of the murder of the leader of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaia), Eduardo Mendúa.

Oswald Spengler says that the state is like a ship that must be led by a captain, a sailor, who happily steers his precious cargo, the economy, into port – and not the other way around, which is what I think they tried to do at the expense of attention to the urgent needs of the people. It seems that the “banker’s” interpretation of politics has led us to the current situation where one journalist’s accusation produced so many victims in the government team and triggered one of the most serious political crises of our time. A change of course in economic and political leadership is needed. There is still a little time left. (OR)