Lasso: you failed

    Guillermo Lasso was elected as President of Ecuador in 2021. Since May of that year, Lasso demonstrated difficulties in managing its own political party, networking and lobbying with the National Assembly, and most of all keeping close his alliance with the Partido Social Cristiano’s Leader, Jaime Nebot.

    Lasso backed his presidency initial months with a successful Covid-19 vaccination campaign, which was supported mainly by international organizations. But further than that; Lasso’s government is a failure. In an earlier post of this blog, it’s mentioned the following:

“With this in mind and having elections for president in Ecuador in 2024; time is an enemy for Lasso’s presidency. Ecuador’s President needs to increase speed in changes, reforms, and lobbying through a divided Assembly (Congress) to obtain legislation that allows: economic freedom, stronger rule of law, and presenting a positive environment for foreign investment. All these changes must be done quickly enough so that by 2024 elections Ecuadorians may not remember the social cost of the implementation of such reforms.”

    The changes didn’t come fast enough. Instead, Lasso managed to burn bridges with every possible person, political party or organization that could help him to govern in a positive manner in order to implement the changes the country needed. For that, Lasso: you failed.

    Lasso, who came from the private sector and built his own empire, had no clue on how to manage a country. He didn’t have a National Plan, instrument stated in the constitution to become President –even though, he had more than ten years to elaborate it while he was in campaign to achieve the presidency-. Hence, Lasso: you failed.

    In matters of national security, Lasso had no clue what the country needed. It is not enough to cut the business of the drug trafficking lords and their operations. Lasso’s government didn’t have the security plan nor the plan for those who make a living off from drug trafficking, his lack of governing turned into chaos in the country. The insecurity levels escalated, people were extorted, and killed; –overall Ecuador is a Failed State-. Therefore, Lasso: you failed.

    Lasso’s egocentrism played a major role in the current situation, in May 2023 he dissolved (using the Crusader Death method) the National Assembly, where it carried out an impeachment trial against him. The application of the Crusader Death, a tool enshrined in the constitution of 2008, causes the presidential elections to be brought forward to August 2023; giving hope for the return of the so-called "Socialism of the XXI Century", which is Rafael Correa’s political party; with all the threats to liberty that this implies. And in some many other ways, Lasso: you failed.