Will the left in Ecuador buck the downward regional trend?

In recent elections across the world, incumbent candidates have faced an uphill battle. Ecuadoreans might buck the trend in the upcoming election of February 19. Yet, if there are lessons to be learned from recent upsets, the last weeks of a campaign is when surprises begin to pop up.

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A counterweight to populism in Latin America: judicial legitimacy and popularity

Populism, a resilient phenomenon in Latin America, has enabled and relied on the inclusion of politically alienated masses to legitimize the weakening of institutions. How is court empowerment and independence possible in the face of such a powerful anti-institutional force? This research argues that the answer may be found in the same mechanisms that enable populism: popularity and legitimacy.

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Un régimen de auto-censura

Según Fundamedios, “en las redacciones de los diarios ya no son los periodistas los que deciden los contenidos, las decisiones las toman los abogados de los diarios.”

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Entrevista con Guillermo Lasso Mendoza

Recientemente tuvimos la oportunidad de entrevistar a Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, uno de los candidatos para las próximas elecciones Ecuatorianas de 2017. El candidato Lasso lidera el Movimiento Político Creando Oportunidades ­(CREO). Fue candidato a la Presidencia del Ecuador por CREO en las elecciones de 2013 en las que se convirtió en la segunda fuerza política del país.

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Entrevista con Mae Montaño

La semana pasada tuvimos la oportunidad de entrevistar a Mae Montaño, Asambleísta Nacional, ingeniera, periodista y activista por los derechos de la mujer, niñez y la familia, y para la inclusión social de la población Afro-Ecuatoriana.

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El viaje de Obama a América Latina

Está claro que América Latina no es un solo país. Asimismo, a Estados Unidos no le ha quedado otra opción que muchas veces mirar la región como una misma masa de países. Porque si bien los que siguen “gritando contra el imperio” son cada vez menos, los que callan ante esos gritos son cada vez más. Nadie se atreve, en la región, a frenar la ola de discursos vacíos de mea culpa.

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Going Down the Rabbit Hole of the UNHRC’s Universal Review Process

Even in Latin America, a region often thought to share the same democratic orientation and values of the U.S. and Europe, there are some striking differences among groups of countries regarding supporting norms and practices on human rights internationally, with some countries lining up more with autocratic countries of the Global South.

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Democracy undermined from within

The real threat from the December 3 constitutional amendments in Ecuador isn’t the possibility of indefinite re-election for President Correa, it’s the way they were approved and their implications for freedom of expression.

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A Sad Day for the UNHRC

Ecuador and Venezuela on the UN Human Rights Council? The UN General Assembly just voted Ecuador to the organization’s human rights body and renewed Venezuela’s mandate—two countries that have some of the worst human rights records in the Western Hemisphere.

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