Democracy, leadership and authoritarianism

Abstract

The government of Rafael Correa has become an authoritarian government, a product of the own preventions of the social organizations that took him to power and that wanted to shield his mandate due to the recent history of political instability that the Pals experienced. Correa has consolidated a government centered on the presidential figure, from where, like the old regimes of real socialism, any critical voice is stigmatized, information is controlled and social protest is criminalized, moving away more and more from the democratic project, with voices diverse, that was the one that the social organizations disertaron like axis of a true social transformation.