Estudio de la influencia del estado de excepción en la producción de mensajes en los medios tradicionales y medios alternativos en las jornadas de protesta del 2 al 13 de octubre de 2019 en la ciudad de Quito.

Abstract

The investigative work establishes the impact of the declaration of State of Exception during the days of protest of October 2019, considering its influence on the production of messages in the traditional and alternative media in relation to the provisions of the Organic Law of Communication (LOC) in force, which was collected with the collection of information from the Facebook Social Network, corresponding to the company accounts of El Comercio, El Universo, Crisis Magazine and Wambra. As well as, the analysis of the social, political and economic impact based on the report carried out by the Central Bank of Ecuador with the support of the World Bank Group, the chronology of decrees established by the Constitutional President of the Republic, the cause-effect analysis -objectives and the evaluation of the fundamental principles established by the theorists studied in Executive Decree No884; In which, a lack of depth was determined in the data established for estimated losses and damages, the decision-making that increased social discontent and acts of violence assumed by the public forces and the military. The restrictions of Decree No. 884, in which the basic rights of civil society were limited also denoted its influence on the dissemination of information by the analyzed media, giving as a deduction, carrying out citizen oversight in favor of helping to the progress, care and abolition of inequality in the distribution and quality of wealth through Public Expenditure. The conclusion drawn from this study establishes that the democratic life of the Republic of Ecuador has been violated, as well as its rights and fundamental principles of solidarity, equality, justice, impartiality, among others. According to the results obtained, it can be understood that there is no solid and reasonable basis for the declaration of a State of Exception by the executive and suggested by his advisers, since the instruments with which the economic measures of the Decree were imposed No. 883 were a clear proof of the dependence on the hegemonic forces and economic elites that do not look after the good of the Ecuadorian people and the democratic life of the country but rather for their particular and private interests.