Thread by @rosendo_joe

In #Ecuador the rightwing Lasso government has used police to ram through changes to the CPPCS (a body that overseas selection process for judical council, auditor general & prosecutors etc..)

Here is some brief background on that. The sad story begins in May of 2017

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https://twitter.com/Danielsalcan88/status/1494668435321720835

In May of 2017, Lenin Moreno took office & immediately shit-canned the left policy platform that got him elected and adopted the one of his rightwing opponent who lost that year - Ecuador's current president Guillermo Lasso.

A key target of Moreno was immediately the CPCCS

In 2018, Moreno handpicked a "transitory" CPCCS that was supposed to step aside for an elected one. BUt the trasitory CPCCS (CPCCS-T) was grossly illegal. It was put together illegaly and then behaved even more illegally & tyranically once convened.

The CPCCS-T illegally granted itselef sweeping power far beyond what the actual CPCCS has. The idea was that changes the CPCCS-T made to prosecutors judical council members etc would thoroughly reimpower the right wing elite whose power was eroded by Rafael Correa (from 2007-17)

But the time a vastly less powerful CPCCS was elected, the idea was that the work of purging the Ecuador's judiciary, prosecutors, etc of "Correasits" would be so complete that (combined with other persecution) an elected CPCCS woud pose little threat to Ecuador's rightwing elite

But while Correa's left wing movememntn was badly hurt by the political persecution since 2017, it remains the most powerful left movement in the country by far. It's candidate (Andres Arauz) nearly won the presidency in 2021 & it has the largest # of seats in National Assembly

Resilency of Correaists in the face of persecution is directly linked to acievements in office. Consider Ecuador's hoicide rate. It increased constantly since 1980 but fell dramitcally while Correa was in office, but then increased drastically again under Moreno & now Lasso

In economic polcy the story is simlar. Drastic reduction of poverty took place while Correa was in office as it set to work bilding and/or improving basic infastructure such as roads, hydro electric plants, schools & hospitals

So even a weak elected CPCCS cannot be trusted to fully protect Ecudor's rightwing elite (on whose behalf Lasso governs) to protect it from the conseuqnces of their corrution, repression and gross incompetence since 2017. Hence a renewed assault on the CPCCS was undertaken

For much more detail on Moreno's CPCCS-T, see my interview in 2018 with Ecuadorian legal scholar @ORuizCh

counterpunch.org/2018/10/12/ecu…