A World to Win: 'Neoliberal Authoritarianism' - an interview with Guillaume Long

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. In the second episode of A World to Win, Grace talks to former foreign minister of Ecuador Guillaume Long about the impact of Covid-19 in the country, the rise and fall of the Correa government and the growth of ‘neoliberal authoritarianism’ in Latin America.

Long discusses the “huge cuts” imposed in recent years by Ecuador’s Moreno administration, an austerity plan which has seen public investment in the health sector halved and 10 percent of public health workers laid off with the support of the IMF.

He also explains the campaign of ‘lawfare,’ which has sought to criminalise Rafael Correa and prevent him from returning to office, and the systematic retaliation from Western governments to Ecuador’s progressive economic and environmental policies under Correa’s government.

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0:15.6	Hello and welcome to a world to win a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and
0:20.4	action from around the world. Today I'm joined by Guillaume Long,
0:24.3	former foreign minister of Ecuador under Raphael Correa, to discuss his experience as a
0:28.8	socialist in government, the political turmoil in Ecuador today, and the future of socialism in Latin America.
0:35.2	As you know our funding for the first few episodes comes from the Lippman-Miloban Trust.
0:40.6	They're a brilliant organization and you can follow them on Twitter at Lippman-Millaband.
0:45.2	But we need to build up our subscriber base if we're going to make this work long term.
0:50.0	So if you are just as excited to listen to this podcast as we are to bring it to you, you can sign up as a patron on patreon.com slash a world to win pod.
0:58.6	You'll get access to exclusive content behind the scenes action and the chance to influence the future direction of the show.
1:06.0	Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts and to give us a rating if you're a fan. Also make sure you
1:14.7	follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for updates and that's all with the
1:19.2	handle at a World to win pod. Now without further ado I give you the rundown with
1:24.7	Giam Long where we talk about the coronavirus in Ecuador and protests against
1:28.8	IMF imposed cuts. So in this section we're going to discuss a few stories that have
1:39.4	caught our eye this week and which we want to discuss in a little more depth. So first we have this story from the BBC.
1:46.0	Ecuador's Port City of Gaya Kiel is one of the worst hit places in the whole of Latin America in the coronavirus pandemic. So Guillaume, can you explain why that is and indeed why Ecuador has been hit so hard by the pandemic as well?
1:59.1	So I think it's a number of factors that combined together created this lethal cocktail in Ecuador and particularly in Guayakil.
2:07.0	So, you know, we know that some migrants came back from some Ecuador and migrated to Spain and came back to visit Ecuador and we've kind of we now know where they were and how you know infection started and then there were the government was very slow in in reacting they first banned and then
2:24.5	authorize these football games with 17,000 people attending and that seems to be like one of the
2:30.8	moments where the virus really spread out but of course there are more
2:35.2	long-term reasons why the Ecuador and state was unable to deal with the coronavirus
2:41.6	crisis let's not forget that the Moreno administration has undergone huge cuts to the health
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