15 days ago I wrote the first part of this guide. There he proposed that followers of an ideology promoted by an authoritarian leader must learn to connect the dots, handle data, question themselves, while improving questions around why, why, how and avoiding immediate responses to lower emotionality and looking for connections beyond faith in the word of the authoritarian.

What I didn’t say was that the social media reactions generated by the safety phrase were an excuse to clear up those ideas. A platitude circulated on social networks that reports of the presence of organized crime in Ecuador did not appear in 2018, but much earlier, in 2009. Three governments have passed since that year and little has been done. an issue.

Educational guide against authoritarianism (I)

To begin with, let’s try to put together a very small part of the puzzle of organized crime, that is, the collection of information, public data, those that you, I and anyone find in the national and international press, in information bulletins of the police, the Prosecutor’s Office, Europol or any other body that works on this type of crime. Both in journalistic and, of course, academic research.

Let’s start the exercise: 2009 is only an approximate date, because for that year, after the bombing of Angostura, the political scope of the police operation, Huracán de la Frontera, was revealed, which made it possible to follow certain lines of investigation. about money and the closeness of certain political figures to the FARC, which already that year Colombia and the USA consider not only terrorists, but also drug dealers in a large part of the planet.

There is also, for example, a 2011 report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), which identifies potential links between the drug trade and the FARC with Ecuadorian politics since the beginning of this century, 2002 to be exact.

In recent years, national and international media have reported on the presence of the Albanian mafia since 2009, and later on the arrival of the Italian mafia.

So, those who support the authoritarian version should be asked: what are the explanations they give for this long-detected reality? If you believe that a particular government had a policy on this matter, how do you explain that security organizations of several countries or independent or academic research centers have also raised doubts since 2002, which would imply that there were failures by 5 governments, not just 3?

Advocates in the public debate could turn the debate to how to defend the thousands of defenseless with violenceon what are the solutions they propose for living in a country of peace, on what are the risks for the whole country from the defense of organized crime in public debates, on how we regenerate social ties so that we can trust each other and recognize ourselves as Ecuadorians. (OR)