Gestión Estatal de la Emergencia Sanitaria en Ecuador: Implicaciones Para la Condición Infanto-juvenil

The health emergency provoked by COVID-19, in the Ecuadorian case, finds a State not only incapable of managing it adequately, but also a battered public-state institutionality that, to a great extent, amplifies and deepens the crisis despite its evident attempts to try to hide and ignore it, both in its magnitude and in the multiplicity of its characteristics.1 However, the same official information and that constructed from data from state entities shows data that indicate an aggressive process of erosion of the health, education and labor sectors, whose primary cause and evidence is found in the set of governmental decisions adopted during the pandemic (and even before) in which one of the most affected population sectors is children and youth, particularly children and young people from popular sectors (Observatorio Social Ecuador, 2020).