• Crisis: The indigenous people take the National Assembly of Ecuador to the shout of "Get out Lenin Moreno!"
  • Profile Lenin Moreno, the rebel successor of Rafael Correa

Everything emanating from Diosdado Cabello, the second strong man in Venezuela, distils a sinister air. In the midst of the serious political crisis that Ecuador is going through, the Chavista leader has said, with sneer, that lately "there has been a Bolivarian brisita" that travels to the countries of the region.

Both Cabello and Nicolás Maduro rub their hands in the face of the revolts that have paralyzed many of Ecuador for days. When President Lenín Moreno announced the elimination of fuel subsidies as part of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund in exchange for a loan of 4,000 million dollars, it was a matter of time before the social outbreak occurred. It is not the first time it has happened in the Andean country.

In recent years at least three presidents have been deposed as a result of mass mobilizations that have taken them out of the Carondelet palace in Quito. Abdalá Bucaram (1997-1998), Jamil Mahuad (1998-2000) and Lucio Gutiérrez (2003-2005) could not contain the strength of the Confederation of Indigenous Entities which, according to official data, represents 7% of the total population . Moving from the provinces and hidden points, the arrival in the capital of this group unhappy with measures that may be necessary but unpopular, is the prelude to a social shock that shakes the president on duty.

Avoiding the same fate of some of his predecessors, the former vice president and disciple of former president Rafael Correa has taken refuge with his staff in the coastal city of Guayaquil, hoping to resist the entrenched onslaught in the economic center while the political capital is at the mercy of protesters.

From his temporary lair, Moreno tries to maintain control with a curfew and exceptional measures. In turn, he denounces that the protests and vandalism in the streets are encouraged from outside by Correa himself (today his arch enemy) and the axis of 21st century socialism that he promoted along with Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales.

The truth is that Correa, a refugee in Belgium to avoid being prosecuted in Ecuador on charges of corruption and abuse of power, does not forgive who in his day was his protégé to depart from the leftist populism that he intended to perpetuate during his term Over a decade. Moreno surprised his own and strangers when, shortly after winning the elections in 2017 , he broke away from his mentor's absolutist vocation and alliances with the Bolivarian revolts.

Among the first measures that Moreno drove was to hold a referendum that broke up with the aspiration of his predecessor to establish indefinite reelection. In that way he aborted the possibility of a return from his former preceptor to seize power again and not release it. Very soon the new government launched an anti-corruption offensive and Correa's environment, touched by Odebrecht's plot, gradually fell.

With videos on social networks that seek to agitate the masses in his native country, Correa challenges his adversary today and predicts his end by making Maduro and Cabello choir. Those of 21st century socialism are like Nosferatu. To survive they need to suck blood until they dry their enemies.

Meanwhile the indigenous movement, which denies being a puppet of Correa (whom he calls "opportunist") and denounces the presence of violent "infiltrators", once again advances unstoppable from the jungle and the mountains. Laugh at the toxic Bolivarian "breeze" in front of the human storm that approaches the abandoned Government Palace.

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