Thea Riofrancos: Left Power and Environmentalism in Ecuador

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In Ecuador, the left won reelection this year, after Alianza PAÍS candidate Lenin Moreno, former President Rafael Correa’s vice president, narrowly won election this year. It was a major victory given the crisis hitting the pink tide of left governments throughout the region. But it was perilously close to a loss. Correa accomplished a lot for the country’s poor majority but did so thanks to a commodity boom that has since gone bust, a strategy that put the left government in conflict with indigenous and environmental movements. Dan’s guest today is Thea Riofrancos, a political scientist at Providence College. Thanks to our supporters at nacla.org, the best source for left-wing analysis on Latin America.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by the listeners who support us on Patreon and by NACLA.
0:05.2	Couldn't get enough of Jacobin's special issue on Latin America?
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1:02.5	Thank you. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.
1:07.0	My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
1:13.3	What has become of Latin America's pink tide? It was an unprecedented rise in leftist governments that came to power via the ballot box, beginning with Hugo Chavez's election in 1998.
1:19.4	By 2009, left administrations governed two-thirds of Latin America's population. But today,
1:26.7	the Chavista government in Venezuela is in profound crisis, and the right has taken over
1:31.2	via the ballot box in Argentina and by legislative coup in Brazil.
1:35.9	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, Quito, high in the Andes,
1:47.3	and a spectacular landscape that stretches eastward into the Amazon rainforest,
1:52.2	west to the Pacific coast, and beyond to the Galapagos Islands.
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