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E C U A D O R
BRYAN F BARRIGA
 THE DEMOCRATIC
CENTER MOVEMENT
THE DEMOCRATIC CENTER MOVEMENT IS AN
ECUADORIAN POLITICAL MOVEMENT OF LEFT
TENDENCY. ALTHOUGH IT HAS BEEN DECLARED AS A
POLITICAL CENTER ORGANIZATION, IT HAS REMAINED
CLOSE TO "ALIANZA PAÍS" FOR MUCH OF ITS
EXISTENCE. IT ASSUMES A POSITION IN WHICH THEY
PRETEND TO BE THE MEETING POINT BETWEEN THE
IDEOLOGICAL EXTREMES AND PUT PROGRESSIVISM
AMONG THEIR POINTS.
 CREO MOVEMENT
THE CREO MOVEMENT, ALSO KNOWN AS CREO, OFFICIALLY CALLED
THE CREO MOVEMENT, CREATING OPPORTUNITIES; IT IS AN
ECUADORIAN POLITICAL PARTY WITH LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVE
IDEAS. IT WAS OFFICIALLY AUTHORIZED BY THE ECUADORIAN
ELECTORAL BODY ON JANUARY 20, 2012 WITH THE LIST 21 TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE GENERAL ELECTIONS. IT IS BASED ON
CONSERVATIVE LIBERALISM WHICH IS AN IDEOLOGY THAT
COMBINES LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE POSITIONS ON SOCIAL,
ECONOMIC OR ETHICAL ISSUES, CONSERVATIVE LIBERALISM IS A
MORE MODERATE VARIANT OF CLASSICAL LIBERALISM. IT IS APPLIED
AS A LABEL TO DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTIES AND IDEOLOGICAL
POSITIONS OF AN ECLECTIC AND POSSIBLE NATURE.
 THE PACHAKUTIK
PLURINATIONAL UNITY
MOVEMENT
THE PACHAKUTIK PLURINATIONAL UNITY MOVEMENT IS AN
ECUADORIAN POLITICAL MOVEMENT WITH AN INDIGENOUS
TENDENCY THAT EMERGED ON NOVEMBER 1, 1995 IN ORDER
TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF THE INDIGENOUS
MOVEMENT LED BY CONAIE. IT IS BASED ON INDIGENISM,
WHICH IS A CULTURAL, ANTHROPOLOGICAL TREND
FOCUSED ON THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF
INDIGENOUS CULTURES, AND THE QUESTIONING OF THE
MECHANISMS OF DISCRIMINATION AND ETHNOCENTRISM
TO THE DETRIMENT OF NATIVE PEOPLES.
THE DEMOCRATIC LEFT
THE DEMOCRATIC LEFT IS AN ECUADORIAN DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST
POLITICAL PARTY, HISTORICALLY AN ECUADORIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC
PARTY AND A MEMBER OF THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL. IT WAS THE
MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL FORCE IN THAT COUNTRY, BOTH IN
ELECTORAL RESULTS AND IN PARTY ORGANIZATION, IN THE LATE 1980S,
AND LATER BECAME THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT IN THE 1990S, AFTER
THE SOCIAL CHRISTIAN PARTY. WITHIN THE IDEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, IT ADVOCATES THE
CREATION OF A NEW STATE STRUCTURE BASED ON FREE POPULAR
DECISIONS, WHICH ALLOWS THE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
AND PROPERTY, THE RATIONAL USE OF NATIONAL RESOURCES AND THE
BREAKDOWN OF EXTERNAL DEPENDENCY. THEIR SLOGAN IS "SOCIAL
JUSTICE WITH FREEDOM." CURRENTLY, AFTER ITS RE-FOUNDING IN 2015,
THE PARTY IDENTIFIES WITH DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
WHY I THINK ANDRES ARAUZ IS GOING TO WIN
• AT 36, HE COULD BECOME THE YOUNGEST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF ECUADOR. AT THE AGE OF 26 HE WAS
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF ECUADOR AND AT THE AGE OF 30 HE BECAME MINISTER OF KNOWLEDGE AND
HUMAN TALENT, A POSITION HE HELD BETWEEN 2015 AND 2017. ALSO IN 2017 HE WAS, FOR A FEW MONTHS, MINISTER
OF CULTURE AND HERITAGE.

• PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN THAT HE HAS CONFIDENCE IN HIM SINCE HIS MODEL AND HIS IDEOLOGICAL CURRENT ARE
BASED ON THE CURRENT MODEL WHICH, ALTHOUGH THEY WANT TO DENY IT, HELPED THE COUNTRY IN VARIOUS
CRISES.

• ANDRÉS ARAUZ IS A CONVINCED LATIN AMERICANIST, SO HE HAS WOVEN TIES WITH OTHER LEFTIST PRESIDENTS IN
THE REGION SUCH AS ALBERTO FERNÁNDEZ, IN ARGENTINA, AND LUIS ARCE, IN BOLIVIA.