Neoliberal offensive and civil society contradictions in Ecuador

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the Ecuadorian political scenario which opens with the mobilizations of October 2019 and leads on 2021 presidential elections. By using the theoretical-methodological platform developed by Antonio Gramsci, and some of his concepts, an explanation is offered to the enigmatic circumstance of why an uprising popular movement, that articulate multiple popular sectors, did not generate an effective political opposition to neoliberalism in the Andean country. To this end, a review of the background on how some characteristics of the State-civil society equation were historically constructed, and the changes introduced by the period of the Citizen Revolution is undertaken; as well as the restructurings operated by the neoliberal offensive during the Moreno´s administration that help to explain the implications of the last presidential elections.