Ecuador and Neoliberalism: an Approach to Political-cultural Challenges from Progressivism

Abstract

Ecuador has had successive neoliberal governments, which have electorally guaranteed their presence in the management of the State, even when they suffered a political and ideological erosion. The article explores the forms and dimensions acquired by neoliberalism in all spheres of daily life, and how this helps to explain the triumph of Daniel Noboa after the failure of Guillermo Lasso, both within the same tendency. Subsequently, a review of what happened in the last electoral processes in Ecuador is made, problematizing the need for social movements that strengthen progressivism. It also raises some approaches for a discussion from a political-cultural perspective as a field of dispute of meanings, and as a space that generates meanings and representations of the world.