After the National Assembly relented in the continuation of the political trial against the President of the Republic Guillermo Lasso, it is possible to ensure that in addition to the legal reasons used by both sides, there are political desires and motives that have allowed things to reach this level where everyone seems to be walking by wire. In this context, it is worth asking whether it was really inevitable to get where we are, or whether instead there has been a noticeable flaw in the idea that politics is the art of the possible insofar as it is managed with talent and skill.

Perhaps thinking that politics is the art of the possible, the current Government at the beginning of its mandate considered that there was a possibility of building a solid and permanent agreement with Conaie’s political branch, Pachakutik, by which Guadalupe Llori could become president. national assembly. But as mentioned in an interesting article, politics has ceased to be the art of the possible and has become the technique of the inevitable, turning the work of governing into the challenge of predicting the inevitable, since “more and more things are beyond the control of politics” , “which can only at best measure the consequences of decisions made decision”. This affirmation would relieve a great responsibility in the political management of the current ruler, because it would mean that he could and should have foreseen from the beginning of his rule that there would be an overwhelming and somewhat deceptive opposition, which would spare no effort in disqualifying his government, causing its downfall and removal. Faced with this reality, what did the government without solid political support do?

To ask for reflection at this point may seem ridiculous, but what else is left to us?

However, it is also valid to consider the idea that even if the government worked to build every possible and imaginable bridge, its opponents would make it impossible to blow them up. Yes, it is possible that this assumption is correct and that, knowing the ambitions and prejudices of its main opponents, every effort would be in vain, because sooner or later what we are witnessing would happen. The point is that if we accept the inevitability of politics as an absolute element when it comes to governing, we would come to the conclusion that it is practically impossible to govern in these countries, an idea shared by Jaime Durán Barba, who affirms that all governments in Latin America “were popular during their first year, and then became the worst raters in recent history.”

At the moment, of course, all these analyzes are only for speculation, because in real politics we can say that we are living moments of great instability in the middle of public peace that is being destroyed more and more every day.

To ask for reflection at this point may seem ridiculous, but what else is left to us? Another is to believe that beneath the taut rope is a huge net that will protect us when we fall, when in reality the only thing there is an unfathomable abyss. (OR)