For Lenín Moreno, the crisis is not the responsibility of …

Outgoing President of Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, indicted on Wednesday against the Ecuadorians themselves, wishing they had had “a better people” during his presidency. The definition took place in Miami, in the closing speech of the Forum for the Defense of Democracy in the Americas, a meeting of Latin American neoliberal politicians, among whom the former Argentine President Mauricio Macri made the gift.

In his presentation, Moreno recounted an alleged anecdote with one person, which demanded better administration of the country. “At one point, a person came forward to me and told me head-on like people usually do: ‘I wish we had a better president. I told him: I wish I had a better city too», He launched in reference to the citizens who entrusted him with the power to vote to govern them from 2017 to March 2021.

This was not the only striking statement from the outgoing president. “In the end, we made a bit of it “He referred to the removal of the fuel subsidy, which had to be stopped in October 2019 due to the national strike – to which the president responded with repression – and which ended up being effective in July 2020, with a system price increase.

Moreno also expressed his opinion on the epidemic in Colombia, in which Iván Duque’s government cracked down on social protest that prevented tax reform. For the outgoing president, behind the revolts, there is Nicolás Maduro, head of state of Venezuela. “Ecuador has detected the political and economic interference of the Maduro regime in the protests in Colombia,” he said.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit Ecuador hard. According to the latest report, the South American country has recorded 18,863 deaths from covid-19, while the number of infected is around 400,000 cases. Moreno’s health administration, for its part, has set a record: it has changed health minister four times. Juan Carlos Zevallos is the one who lasted the longest, almost a year. He was replaced by Rodolfo Farfán involved in a VIP vaccination case who in turn was replaced by Mauro Falconi – it only lasted 19 days – and the latter by the current one, Carlos Salinas.