Cortinas de humo y su presencia en la gestión gubernamental de Ecuador en 2021 – 2022

Abstract

The present titling work exposes the use of smoke screens as a political strategy by the Government of Guillermo Lasso, period 2021-2022 in Ecuador. But how do you identify a smoke screen? And what are the parameters that will make it possible to distinguish their presence in Ecuadorian politics? Smokescreens are strategies manipulated by politicians in the media whose purpose is to build false news to divert the attention of the population and manipulate public opinion with the vision of counteracting relevant information. Within the framework of this study, four most outstanding events in this period of time are reviewed, taking as a reference the one that has generated public opinion. For the research, the qualitative approach combined with a narrative design was applied, evaluating the role of the media and identifying the link with the government for their own benefit. For this, interviews were carried out with communication experts and political scientists, and a content analysis was carried out on the media with the purpose of generating a comparison between public and private media that allows identifying the smokescreens applied in the four most relevant events of the first two years of the government of President Guillermo Lasso.