In one week, we observed several aspects of Daniel Noboa, our new president: From the formal and solemn day of the inauguration, who, with a tense and nervous smile, decided to be short in his address to the country; so far, dozens of decrees later, trying to send strong, powerful messages that where decisions are made, there is an order.

Rejected at the same time as his inauguration by a vice president who had her own political agenda with lunch and music at the market, as another of the disagreements between the two, Noboa decided to end it before it started, with the difficult decision to send her away, as only He can, on the other side of the world, in Tel Aviv, ensure peace between Israel and Hamas on our behalf, as a kind of diplomatic Blue Helmet.

Good or bad? Time will put appropriate adjectives on the question that should not have happened if the figure of the vice president had been eliminated in time, whose current task is to wait for the opportunity to replace the president, that is, to take over the order he gives him. Electoral does not count, since the need for the candidacy supplemented by regional criteria and the reach of social networks.

We have seen that Noboa is determined. To topple, for example, a consumer table attributed to the worst childhood exploits in the despicable world of school drug sales. H. Thankful, from the perspective of the victims; a concern from a vision towards the future, for which other tools must be created to control micro-trade.

Just like the decision to stop the concession of the fifth bridge in the province of Guayas, which the previous government hastily handed over to one of the representatives of the party to whom all contempt belonged, in a not very clear action, but eminently political, not technical.

A change in military chiefs, recent police leadership, the presentation of economic reform and meetings with former rivals now seeking alliances were on the young president’s busy agenda.

His inaugural act lends itself well to the theory of “bumping the rudder,” which assimilates that risky maneuver undertaken by the captain of a ship when he seems to be engulfed in a storm. He does it when he has a lot to gain, with no time to waste. The deep social and economic crisis that this ship is going through is destroying it while it is floating.

The first week of noboism was intense and controversial. It could not, nor should it, have been otherwise, considering the depth to which the state has sunk in the area of ​​citizens’ safety and urgent social care through economic policies that generate long-awaited jobs.

Criticisms, as was inevitable, do not stop appearing in a country where we are all football coaches when the national team plays or international election specialists when Petro wins in Colombia or Milea in Argentina. I believe like everyone in freedom of thought and expression, but I think one of their biggest elements is silence, when we don’t have much to say, or we don’t have information. (OR)