Why Ecuador Matters!!

We just witnessed part 1 of the presidential race in Ecuador, where thanks to a divided opposition, the government-backed candidate Lenin Moreno secured participation in the run-off election scheduled for April 2nd.

Interamerican Institute for Democracy - Beatrice E. Rangel 01/03/2017

We just witnessed part 1 of the presidential race in Ecuador, where thanks to a divided opposition, the government-backed candidate Lenin Moreno secured participation in the run-off election scheduled for April 2nd.

Guillermo Lasso, a former banker representing the much-divided antigovernment camp, was able to attract about 29% of the vote. It is expected that he will be able to galvanize most voters behind his candidacy to do away with yet another member of the Latin American populist alliance established by the deceased president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez.

Should he fail to achieve such goal then the democratic revival in Latin America may slowdown.

Many would ask why would such a small and rather inconsequential country carry such weight in regional politics.

The reason of course is geopolitics. Geographically speaking, South America is an immense island divided into three different and well separated regions.

The Eastern Region with its boundaries created by God and nature with the Amazon jungle. This region encompasses Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia.

The Northern region encircled by the last spell of the Andean Cordillera which encircles Venezuela and Colombia.

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