Mauro Cerbino
of what happened on Sept. 30 can make three observations. The first deals with the general structure of the police and the role played by public forces including the military. The second relates to government action and political support it has. And the third has to do with the role of medicines you media.
First reflection
police insubordination has been an extremely serious but falls within a certain normality if we think in terms of operational structure of the police . That maintains a permanent mode of action in conflict with the law is not, from any point of view, a novelty. Police abuses that plagued the history of our country. I think what happened last Thursday should be read in light of this condition structural. Minister Jalhk, belatedly playing what should be a requirement government overhaul of the police, is likely to have begun to jump-start necessary reforms in this regard, to professionalize the institution, especially to streamline prevention and the use of force in full respect of human rights, through training courses. This is to review the procedures used so far by the police. These efforts have produced an obvious discomfort among policemen. A malaise that becomes clear when we heard (in one of many reports) claims a policeman in which he regrets today as these new procedures should respect the rights of the suspects would otherwise impractical for work. There is thus a reluctance to lose these small spaces of power that have made it possible sometimes to have infringed the dignity and lives of citizens. Then the uprising occurs not only to defend an exception condition relative to other public servants in terms of economic privileges, but what is at stake is that the exception condition also applies in relation to the law allowing the force police (and military) is located by enc ima of the law. Therefore I dare to speak of "gangs of police" means the mode of action on that day and in many other way does not differ from groups of "gang" act, with the difference that the police do supposedly protected by law . In the treatment of these issues and not just as obvious in punishing those responsible (for those who in any way it amnesty) lies the greatest challenge to build after this serious event. Maybe that will considers that police and armed forces but above the first to be demilitarized and become a civil court with the right to form an if able to operationalize ndicato demands and needs and properly channel conflict.
Second
reflection of what occurred can be said without doubt that the image of President Run out strengthened the country internally and externally. In a society accustomed to assist deployment of masculinity scenes of clashes between testosterone and courageous opposition and cowardly, the president too good. You knew skillfully embody the representative democracy, thereby strengthening its hyper figure. Not sure if the rest of government as well as the assembly goes also strengthened. I think not. The first was unable to understand what was coming to prevent it somehow. The second was unable to socialize and timely reporting the contents of the new laws are passed by presidential vetoes, which I doubt will change in the future. So that leaves the policy is weakened as a whole. Besides the other good reason. The public reaction to what happened was particularly weak and disorganized. It is a sign that no However the vast majority enjoyed by the government in times like these that have been raised not know how to organize to deal with situations of this nature. This failure has given way to once again be the military that rises to the defense of democracy by allowing for an outcome to a situation of institutional and political fragility. To Alianza Pais is the daunting task of increasing their base and build conditions for political action organic, so that the "revolution citizen" is assumed by large segments of the population and not identified by one person.
Third
reflection
Private media have treated the issue as a political crisis as well as some exponents of the rightist opposition. While the proceedings were rejected by members of the police has prevailed argument that President Correa have been that caused the crisis. By nature and being confrontational way it is done responsibly. It is a discourse that relates perverse things that should be kept separate. On the one hand, the impertinence to be a president who will try to resolve an issue like that was (it is clear that he must act the minister of interior) and the other the rebellion and breaking the chain of command. This - as I have already mentioned - is produced without any external causes to the police for arguing. So sadly watch as the private media continue to show what should not be your goal: to be opponents of the regime. No matter what they do they also act as a gang. You have voiced the complaint that the declaration of emergency would have curtailed the freedom of expression is the less hypocritical if one considers that in the early morning when the facts began to give some of these media decided autosilenciarse . Ecuavisa Teleamazonas and soap operas such as passing, but then we realized that if we had images. "They chose to establish a waiting period to see who was going to happen? It is very likely if we look at our recent history and remember what has been the attitude of the media in previous overturns: a commitment to strong and the readjustment once defined the new situation. Certainly the commitment of the media is not the defense of democracy, is the clinginess with the powerful.
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