The Dig: Left Power and Environmentalism in Ecuador

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🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Dan’s guest today is Thea Riofrancos, a political scientist at Providence College. They discuss Ecuador’s 2017 elections, in which the left won a narrow victory despite the crisis hitting the Pink Tide of left governments throughout the region.Former President Rafael Correa accomplished much for the country’s poor majority. Unfortunately, he did so thanks to a commodity boom that has since gone bust, a strategy that has put the government in conflict with indigenous and environmental movements.

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1:00.0	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.
1:03.2	My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
1:08.4	What has become of Latin America's Pink Tide?
1:11.4	It was an unprecedented rise in leftist governments that came to power
1:14.5	via the ballot box beginning with Ugo Chavez's election in 1998. By 2009
1:20.5	left administrations governed two-thirds of Latin America's population.
1:26.1	But today the Chavista government in Venezuela is in profound crisis and the right has taken
1:30.9	over via the ballot box in Argentina and by legislative coup in Brazil.
1:36.1	On this episode we'll discuss the Pink Tide in general and Ecuador in particular.
1:41.6	Ecuador is a small South American nation with its capital
1:45.2	Kito high in the Andes and a spectacular landscape that stretches eastward
1:50.1	into the Amazon rainforest, west to the Pacific coast, and beyond to the Galapagos Islands.
1:57.2	In Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, the candidate of the Left Party, Alianza-Paius, and former President Raphael Quureaus, vice president, narrowly
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