We all know people with these two diseases. Scoliosis is a deviation of the spine that makes a person appear “crooked”, and in severe cases seriously interferes with a person’s ability to walk. Anemia, when severe, robs a person of energy and leaves him without the will to do anything.

Ecuador’s economy has both. And critically. The fiscal crisis is a chronic, very severe anemia, the product of a gigantic bleeding of subsidies and state fat, with entities and departments that shouldn’t exist continuing to drain resources.

But the most serious thing is that this anemia is combined with many scoliosis, caused by a series of distortions that, even if the anemia was cured, would still make it difficult for Ecuador to walk.

Those multiple scoliosis are, for example, the high cost of labor, because when all allowances are added to the minimum wage, including 15 percent of the worker’s profit share, companies cannot do well, and investors stay away, especially those from abroad.

Another example is the politicized, irrational structure of interest rates, which, no matter how good the will is in the financial regulation committee in certain changes, is completely insufficient to solve the problem. Therefore, the financial system does not direct resources towards investment, but towards consumption, to the serious detriment of Ecuador’s future growth.

Another scoliosis is corruption in public procurement, which is why imported petroleum products are significantly more expensive than in the world, or public works cost more than they should cost, or hydroelectric plants do not work.

Another very serious situation is the IESS, which is bankrupt in its health fund and in the fund for disability, old age and death, and today is also insolvent, which represents a great risk for the economic, political and social stability of Ecuador.

Another scoliosis is the judicial system, the characteristics of which have been sufficiently analyzed in our country.

Chronically anemic, burdened with so many simultaneous scoliosis, he is dead during his lifetime, he cannot walk, he cannot move forward.

And the solutions to all these questions (plus many others for which there is no place for analysis in this article) are not a matter of current political discussion, they are not a matter of the Assembly, they are not a matter of the Executive, they are not a matter of parties and leaders, whose telescopic laser sights are pointed at 2025. year, that is, in future elections.

I wonder: what must happen for society to react? Overnight find yourself in a crisis in which the state does not pay anyone, and IESS does not pay pensions or medical expenses? Until that time, which is not far away, everyone will start blaming themselves, blaming the government and trying to politically capitalize on the next election.

Either we act now or this anemic with multiple scoliosis will perish with immense suffering for the whole society. (OR)