We’ve all seen the video in which Mono Jojoy, the commander of the narco-guerrilla FARC, confirms that his organization contributed significant amounts of money to the campaign of presidential candidate Rafael Correa. As cold as all state institutions were, no serious investigation into such a serious matter was carried out. In March 2008, Colombian planes bombed inside Ecuadorian territory, not government buildings or local citizens, but a concrete jungle hut for the rest and recreation of Colombian FARC narco-guerrillas. This resort colony was known for left-wing organizations linked to the regime, which managed fluid revolutionary tourism with foreign visitors. The Colombian Air Force was able to launch its operation thanks to the fact that the radars monitoring the border were off, and probably always had been, so they wouldn’t detect drug planes crossing Ecuadorian skies like Pedro’s on his house. In 2009, the government closed the Manta base, which was operated by the United States and was used to detect the traffic of ships and planes suspected of smuggling drugs, with chauvinistic arguments. These are facts in the public domain.

“We are experiencing a phase of advanced crime that applies terrorist, criminal and psychological operations,” says the head of the Police Intelligence Service

Correísmo was defeated in the 2021 elections. A government emerged that partially renewed cooperation with the United States in the fight against drug trafficking and slightly adjusted controls. And oh, surprise! What follows is an avalanche of mega-seizures of drugs, which even exceed the capacity to destroy prohibited goods. Could it be that the drug manufacturers have gone mad or it was not properly controlled before? The facts and logic point more to the latter, because, faced with this attack, organized crime reacted by unleashing the most irrational and terrifying wave of violence that Ecuadorian society has ever seen. How does it work? Introducing tons of weapons, from pistols to assault rifles, to marginalized sectors, inciting and training the youth for any type of crime and devastating the social fabric of the country.

Rafael Correa plans to establish a constitutional assembly to avoid the filters of the Constitutional Court if his political movement returns to power

At the same time, a ridiculous political trial was staged to remove the president.

At the same time, a ridiculous political trial was staged to remove the president. Then Correa appears, selling himself as a strong man who will bring order and proposes a constituent assembly that will adopt a new constitution to replace the one he himself made. With all the powers, he will implement the Bukelist system in which, to kill the deliberately created chaos, he will put a hundred thousand people in prison without trial, precisely those who helped him in this still hypothetical but probable political-criminal coup. On this occasion, the master of the outraged fantasy will no longer have the economic wealth that enables him to perform the “deed”; but, safety being the first demand of the people, the table was set to remain for another twelve years. As current crime does not have a central organization – it is made up of young people from broken homes, seduced by drugs – it will not be difficult to sweep them away with a campaign without thinking too much. This is how the long night of dictatorship will end. (OR)