00:00On July 24, the government announced the reduction and merger of different ministries of the
00:07state, leaving 14. The government spokeswoman stated that the objective is to improve the
00:11quality of service without giving clear details of how many layoffs this will imply within the
00:15public sector, apart from the 5,000 that were announced. Meanwhile, for President Daniel
00:20Noboa, his decision is correct. The state becomes more efficient, more direct, and also consolidates
00:30procedures so that it can better serve the people. The actions of the Ecuadorian executive have
00:40generated strong criticism. The first criticism is that the decision was based on a prescription,
00:46a request, from the International Monetary Fund to give way to the disbursement of loans to
00:50Ecuador, but it is not a conscious decision with a deep analysis, affecting the labor stability
00:55of families because the reduction of ministries implies a labor cutback. There is not a really
01:03technical vision of modernizing the state or really trying to make the state more efficient.
01:09What it is going to do is to produce this job instability for all of us.
01:13The issue is that public services are going to deteriorate because I do not see any reorganization.
01:24It has not been shown to say why these items are being eliminated. What is the criteria?
01:31To which he added that if the government had a clear and not an improvised explanation about the
01:36actions it will take on the merger of the ministries, the outlook would be different.
01:39For some analysts, one of the main concerns is the merger of the Ministry of Education with the
01:47Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage, along with the Secretariat of Higher Education.
01:53For example, the Higher Education Secretariat of the Ministry of Education is oppressed if the
02:00Ministry of Education has not provided a good service in relation to primary and secondary education.
02:05Imagine that it also takes charge of higher education. Then all these things will demonstrate
02:11and show that the public system will deteriorate.
02:17For analysts, Washington and Drede, the decision started from a sense of decline in public institutions
02:24as part of the first steps to the privatization of state affairs.
02:27What does this end up being? The pretext for saying that we need private investment, that health
02:36is neglected, and we need to privatize certain areas of health, which is what is also going
02:41to happen in the oil sector, privatize the oil sector and so on in all areas. In other words,
02:46there is an onslaught of an atrocious neoliberalism.
02:53Meanwhile, different social organizations have already begun to call for marches against the
02:59government's decisions. The objective of the protest is clear, to make the executive branch become aware
03:04and take a step back in its decision. They denounce that the people should be heard, and that the
03:08president should not only work in favor of his elite circle.
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