Last December, four Afro-Latino boys were taken by the Ecuadorian military and were never seen alive again. On this episode, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Claudia O’Brien Moscoso about the case of the Guayaquil Four and how it raises the question of institutional racism and political instability in Ecuador.
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April 14th, 2023: Ecuador’s Deteriorating Democracy Under Guillermo Lasso
As Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso faces a possible second impeachment amid a series of corruption scandals, the LMC spends the hour with Guillaume Long, the former Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs and current senior analyst for the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to break down the scandals plaguing the Lasso administration.
May 8th, 2020: Ecuador & The Coronavirus
While the deaths caused by the Coronavirus pandemic in Latin America is tragic by any measure; the number of deaths in Ecuador along with the governments horrid response has been particularly tragic for the whole world to see. So on this episode, the LMC speaks with former Ecuadorian government minister Guillaume Long on the tragic chain of events that has led to huge numbers of Coronavirus deaths in Ecuador. Guillaume Long is currently a senior policy analyst for the Center for Economic & Policy Research.
