Power outage in Ecuador. Even though it was around 13 years ago, it’s something we haven’t seen on this scale in 30 years. In the 21st century, it is strange that situations like this happen on our continent, and when they happen, they are an indication that the bottom has been reached.

These are the times of power outages

Venezuela lived them all the time. Now it’s our country’s turn. Who is responsible for this backsliding? I would venture to say that the list of those responsible is long – in addition to the drought that is in the country and which the current Government blames – and they are responsible to different extents, but there is one on that list that will be permanent. , will be present if right or left: Constitution.

Ecuador has a Constitution that should be in Ripley’s Museum. This text recognizes that the state will have five functions, so power is distributed among several, but if you control one of these functions (transparency and social control), you control practically all of them. That text constitutionalized a theory that its author discredited, I mean the “rights of nature”. A plant has rights in Ecuador – yes, just like a human being -. This text contains so many ambiguities that it has spawned a body that ensures the constitutionality of laws and regulations that it has the power to paralyze the nation. It seems like a joke, but no, it’s not.

Industries are creating a register of self-producing companies to identify possible contributions to the energy crisis

I will stop short on the last point because it is not secondary. Various actions of the Constitutional Court paralyzed 176 different projects, some of which are electrical. In addition to millions of dollars that stop entering the country’s economy, jobs that are not created, there are benefits that Ecuadorians stop receiving. Some of the paralyzed projects are related to the growth, operation and improvement of existing works. Given this scenario, things are about to get worse.

Who is responsible for this backsliding? …the list of those responsible is long…

Trying to explain this situation abroad is extremely complex. It is not new that a court paralyzes a project because it considers that rights are violated, it happens all over the world. But the fact that the court paralyzed all types of investments that require an environmental permit for months is unprecedented. There is too much power in the hands of a few. It’s excessive. It is protected by Ripley’s text, which we call the Constitution of Ecuador.

There will be no government that can overcome this situation because any government – unless it is no longer democratic – will have to be subject to the Ripley Constitution. While this is happening, Ecuadorians will be subjected to chaos, trapped in the petty battle of politicians and politicians occupying every corner of the non-decision table because disaster is in their hands.

Ecuador will not have a sustainable future with that constitution. It is made in the light of those who believe that they must go all or nothing, so anything that remains in the middle of reason will be drowned in deep darkness.

Ecuadorians are imprisoned there who suffer the consequences of party decisions legitimized by a text that makes them legal.there they are locked in a tunnel with no light at the end. (OR)