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Security & Strategic Review - April 2026
ECUADOR: Opposition warns of democratic erosion
Ecuador’s political opposition is facing escalating legal pressure on several fronts, with criminal investigations looking into alleged money laundering, tax fraud, and illicit campaign financing which may have amounted to foreign interference in Ecuadorean politics. The opposition, however, claims to be the target of persecution that it says reflects wider democratic backsliding under President Daniel Noboa. The 6 March suspension of the main opposition party, Revolución Ciudadana (RC), the party of former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), marked a major escalation. It came after the arrest of the mayor of the country’s largest city, Guayaquil, and raids on the homes of RC’s 2021, 2023 and 2025 presidential candidates.
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