Carceral Pandemic Politics and Epidemiological Elites in Ecuador

Garces C. (2020). Carceral Pandemic Politics and Epidemiological Elites in Ecuador. NACLA Report on the Americas 52(3): 309–316. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2020.1809100

ABSTRACT

Beyond harrowing scenes of overburdened hospitals and loved ones unable to bury their dead, Ecuador’s coronavirus crisis has also produced carceral involution: “immunological elites” stay home while the poor and working classes must risk contagion and incarceration.