Abstract
The Ecuadorian political system represented by President Lenin Moreno has caused an atmosphere of constant tension in the face of the spread of COVID 19, leading to a setting of greater disturbance as the health crisis situation, that was used to apply neoliberal measuresthat had been suspended in October 2019, in the setting of massive protests and discontent. This work is a case study that analyzes the decisions made by the Moreno administration in the face of the pandemic in the temporary cutback that took place during the months of March and May of 2020, a clear move to take advantage of the health crisis situation, and in order to complete its decisions regarding austerity and budget cutbacks. It is, thus, inferred that there is a loss of the sense of protection of life as a primary constitutional right.
Highlights
COVID 19 is a type of infectious respiratory disease caused by a new respiratory virus, the epicenter in Wuhan (China) –outbreak and spreading- December 2019
A political system would be that set of interactions through which values are authoritatively assigned in a society” (Easton, 1965, P.224)."Political life is a system of conduct incorporated into an environment to whose influences the political system itself is exposed" (Easton, 1965, P.221), which does not exist as something empty, is surrounded by physical, biological, social environments and psychological; comprising two parts: intrasocial (series of behavior, attitudes, ideas, belonging to the same society of the political system: the economy, culture, "are functional segments of society, one of its components is the political system itself" (Easton, 1965, P.225 ) and extrasocial that would represent the total environment of any political system
On April 10th2020, in an atmosphere of chaos and a health emergency never seen in the country before, with corpses exposed on the side of the roads and city streets, especially in the cities of Guayaquil and Quito; Moreno announces a series of measures “to face the awkward tax situation during the health emergency ”(RT; 2020), the so-called“Organic Law of economic support to combat the health crisis derived from COVID 19”, with this he poses the creation of a “great national agreement”setting up a Humanitarian Trust, administered, as one may fathom, by individualsfrom private sectors (RT, 2020)
Summary
COVID 19 is a type of infectious respiratory disease caused by a new respiratory virus, the epicenter in Wuhan (China) –outbreak and spreading- December 2019. Its global expansion has generated gradual and massive isolation, causing a complete uncertainty and the almost total paralysis of our future projects. The daily news and reports on the sick, recovered and dead, have only generated doubts. Rise to an almost unrealistic level of analysis that no one had thought possible, so abrupt and untimely. We citizens feel like prisoners, plunged into the boundaries of our own homes, faced with this invisible external enemy. In the light of this new scenario, governments have assumed different roles, some as protectors of life as a universal right, and others as promoters of the economy above any other priority, in some cases taking responsibility on what has to be done, and in others holding it back
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