Resilience of neoliberalism in the progressive governments. The case of the FTA between the European Union and Ecuador (2017): Array

Abstract

The impact of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Ecuador, effective since 2017, is analyzed as an indication of the use of treaties in the implementation and normalization of neoliberal adjustments. First, a summary of the economic data is made, in less than two years, which calls into question the defense of a development model based on free trade agreements between central and peripheral countries. Then, its analyzed the coherence of this model with a reproduction regime of colonial capitalism, in the particular context of the beginning of the 21st century, the progressive governments and the political dispute that accompanied them. The objective of the analysis is to present the articulation of the treaty, as one more element, and defining, of complex operations that explain the resilience of neoliberalism and its dangerous capacity to project the future.