Just 120 days into his term, Ecuador's new president is already undoing his own party's legacy
- Written by Soledad Stoessel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Latin American Political Processes., National University of La Plata
It may be a bit much to invoke Gustav Meyrink’s Golem – the indomitable clay creation that destroyed everything in its path, alive but soulless – but the lurching, paradoxical maneuvering of Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, does lend itself to literary comparisons.
Moreno served as vice president for six years under Rafael...