The goal of the present paper is to illustrate how lawfare is happening in Latin America and specifically in Ecuador. Lawfare was first defined as “a method of warfare where law is used as a means of realizing a military objective” (Dunlap, 2001), whereas today is in the broad sense understood as the use of “legal norms to try to achieve or consolidate political gains” (Guilfoyle, 2019). Our research will focus on the analysis of seven court cases promoted by the Ecuadorian State against the so called “correístas” political faction but observed by international organizations. Our hypothesis is that lawfare is being used in the broad sense in Ecuador to obliterate the political party that constitutes an obstacle to the current government and its intentions to impose a neoliberal economic agenda and bring back the US as the hegemonic geopolitical actor.
Our 2020 Annual Conference was scheduled to be held at the University of Wrocław in Poland on July 9-11, 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our next Annual Conference will take place from July 8-10, 2021. The conference, "ICON•S Mundo", will be held online. Details regarding the organization of the 2021 Conference will follow soon.
Join ICON•S