End of preview - This article contains approximately 1617 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Andean Group - May 2017 (ISSN 1741-4466)
Ecuador’s Moreno steps out of Correa’s shadow
President Lenín Moreno took office in Ecuador on 24 May. On paper Moreno is the continuity candidate. He replaces Rafael Correa, the longest (consecutive) serving head of state in the country’s history, at the helm of the left-wing Citizens’ Revolution. In terms of social and economic policy little separates the two men. But in terms of style there is a vast gulf. While Correa was pugnacious and peremptory, Moreno is conciliatory and laid-back. That should not, however, be confused with being weak: those who predicted that Moreno would be little more than Correa’s pawn will have been taken aback by his wholesale cabinet changes. Nonetheless, if Ecuador’s economic situation fails to improve, constraining Moreno’s social welfare policies, his popularity will suffer and he could struggle to enforce the power of his personality over a reduced majority of the ruling Alianza País (AP) in the national assembly.
- Ecuador’s Moreno steps out of Correa’s shadow
- Morales agrees wage deal with unions; trumpets growth
- Fighting social discontent on various fronts
- Constitutional court derails peace fast-tracking
- Kuczynski announces mini cabinet reshuffle
- Continued progress in anti-poverty efforts
- From Vampire Squid to loan shark
- All aboard the high-speed constituent assembly train
- RSF reiterates press freedom concerns in the Andean