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IMPACT OF WAR IN ECUADOR - Coggle Diagram
IMPACT OF WAR IN ECUADOR
Wars are full of shameful chapters that are silenced to ensure impunity, because, after all, the state of exception has the capacity to suspend the rule of law
On July of 1941, Peruvian forces of land, sea and air were preparing to invade Ecuador from the south and from the eastern Amazon. The Ecuadorian army was weakened, little resistance could offer to the invading troops. It was a matter of time for the front to collapse
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If the prevailing legality is nothing more than the legal manifestation of political power, the Ecuadorian constitutional course shows well what I affirm
Ecuador has expressed the change of hands in the exercise of power through twenty constitutions, including the current one dating from 2008
The young republic born from the great-Colombian dissolution had not only the economic consequences derived from the huge portion of the independence debt that was attributed to it, but was also the successor of unresolved borderline problems that over the years would translate into in armed conflicts with Colombia and Peru, its powerful neighbors.
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Ecuador was pressured to sign with Peru the Protocol of Rio de Janeiro in January 29, 1942, the most tangible result of which was the loss of practically half of the national territory
Otto Schwarz Wilde was, however, one of the few who documented his journey from Guayaquil to the Kennedy and Crystal City concentration camps, both located in the State of Texas.
From that point, writes Schwarz, ... we were sent in a convoy to New Orleans. Together with my wife and children we were interned in the Cristal City concentration camp ... Our daughter Erna, 15 and ½ years old, since her arrival, served as a hospital nurse and as a German-English interpreter. -storeroom. Our two sons attended the concentration camp school.
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Abandoned by the homeland that they had as such or that was theirs by birth, the case of foreigners and Ecuadorians who were deprived of their rights because they were inscribed on the Black List constitutes, up to the present, an execrable fact where impunity, denial of justice, violation of human rights and forgetfulness.
As Marcelo Raffin affirms, "the terms 'memory' and 'forgetfulness' always imply a hegemonic struggle, a struggle to impose 'a' vision of the past 'unique' and 'exclusive'
For this reason, the definition of modern totalitarianism explained by Giorgio Agamben could perfectly fit with the way of conducting the Ecuadorian government; totalitarianism that he outlines as the "establishment, through the state of exception, of a legal civil war, which allows the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for whatever reason are not integrable into the political system."
Entire families of German and Italian descent were morally and patrimonially sacrificed for the sake of "continental defense" and Ecuadorian "democratic institutions".
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