The word is an essential paradox: it serves to defend freedoms and affirm dignity. It serves to justify tyranny, worship leaders and condemn excessive power.

It is used to write laws, follow false stories, or tell the truth. It is useful to write rights or deny them. The written word – or the spoken word – is memory, memory, project and doctrine.

The power of words explains the frequency of speech and the repetition of propaganda, where it acquires an obvious political meaning. And so the word becomes an instrument, a means of domination, a denial of ideas, a falsification that is shaped into slogans.

Republics are, in fact, words. Constitutions are words that can travel with the wind or settle on the soil of the earth and germinate as institutions. The history of Ecuador is a chronicle of legal texts lost in the whirlwind of events; It’s a hotbed of rules, it’s an endless blah blah of all against all.

Perhaps the essence of the problem lies in the devaluing of words, in the handicapping of norms that are, ultimately, words.

Perhaps it lies in the ability to interpret the law in a sense contrary to what common sense indicates. Perhaps the point is that the truth has become a stone guest at the great banquet of rhetoric and phraseology, in the choir of justifications, flattery and fears. In the endless discourse that they turned into hope.

A sign of decadence is the cheapness of words and the tendency to turn clarity and simplicity into a complicated chaquiñán that confuses and eludes. A sign of decadence is complicity with those who lie, with those who make things up, it is the fear of calling a spade a spade. And in all this, the tool and sacrifice is the word, which, paradoxically, is at the same time a shield and defense, a resource so that dignity is not renounced to the end, to be maintained, even if it is in the refuge of the house, the value of concepts, the clarity of ideas , critical capacity; preserve, in spite of everything, the courage to think and say, to disagree and stand out.

The word is always a contradiction, it is controversial. It is salvation and death. It’s a double-edged sword. Tombstones of tyranny, excuses for repression and novels of non-existent republics were written with it. Thanks to her, stories are told about heroism and cowardice, and she writes about barbarism and solidarity. It is used to confess the truth and lies. The word is a weapon for demolishing and unmasking, it is the arrow that carries the truth and it is the negation of the dominant political literature. It is a tool to say what remains in the memory. It is what endures and is reborn. It is dangerous for the government, that is why their main concern is to silence it, subdue it and mediate it, that is, turn it into discourse, propaganda.

The word is the opposite of silence. It is a right and an obligation. (OR)