Contradicciones de rafael correa biography
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Dilemmas for the Ecuadorian left in the shadow of Correa
- Geoff Goodwin (Lecturer in Global Political Economy, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK)
How to Cite: Goodwin, G. ‘Dilemmas for the Ecuadorian left in the shadow of Correa’. Radical Americas 9, 1 (2024): 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2024.v9.1.003.
Rights: 2024, Geoff Goodwin.
Perplexing neoliberal victories
Daniel Noboa’s victory in the second round of the presidential elections on 15 October 2023 was perplexing for supporters of the former president, Rafael Correa. How did a right-wing candidate with a similar neoliberal agenda to the deeply unpopular outgoing president, Guillermo Lasso, defeat Luisa González, the left-leaning candidate of the correísta party, Revolución Ciudadana? Surely, after six years of International Monetary Fund (IMF)-sponsored neoliberal austerity, soaring violence, escalating poverty and surging migration, the time was ripe for a correísta president to steer the country away from the abyss? Understanding why Ecuadorians opted for Noboa, a member of one of Ecuador’s wealthiest families, over González, a loyal correísta, requires looking back at Correa’s decade-long pres
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Committee for representation Abolition submit Illegitimate Debt
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