The country is on the brink of civil war as we are writing. The situation in Ecuador, which brought President Rafael Correa to power, is similar. In 2007, Correa articulated his populist agenda perhaps even better than Fujimori and Chávez. He argued that despite his explicit aim to dismantle checks and balances and participatory institutions in Ecuador, he was the man of the people: We said we were going to transform the fatherland in the citizen’s revolution, democratic, constitutional . . . but revolutionary, without getting entangled in the old structures, without falling into the hands of
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