Ecuador | Program Associate, Peter D. Bell Rule of Law, Inter-American Dialogue
Daniel Caballero joined the Inter-American Dialogue in August 2023 as a Program Associate in the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program. Prior to joining the Dialogue, Caballero served as the chief legal advisor for Justice Daniela Salazar at the Constitutional Court of Ecuador. Previously, he worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a researcher for the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at Universidad de Palermo in Argentina, and as an attorney for legal services and strategic litigation at Asylum Access Ecuador. He also served as a human rights project coordinator at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito School of Law, where he is an adjunct law professor for Constitutional Procedure and International Refugee Law.
He holds a juris doctor with a minor in Human Rights from Universidad San Francisco de Quito, a master’s in Constitutional Law from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, and a master of laws in International Human Rights from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
He is fluent in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and German.
On May 2, 2024, the Dialogue’s Rule of Law Program, the Stanford Law School’s Rule of Law Impact Lab, and the Mexican Bar Association released a report analyzing the constitutional reform proposals presented by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the Mexican Congress in February 2024. The report concludes that the proposals directed at the federal judiciary constitute a direct threat to judicial independence.
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While the market inherently lacks the ability to discriminate between democratic and undemocratic regimes, the identification of autocracy as a tangible risk factor is crucial. Investors must recognize that supporting non-democratic regimes ultimately undermines their own interests.
Ecuador’s security crisis has surged to unprecedented levels, casting a chilling shadow across the nation. The distressing events on January 8 and 9 are a demonstration of a crisis that has worsened over the years, fueled by the clear neglect and failures of successive governments.
In Latin America, the rise of so-called “outsiders” with anti-system or anti-establishment agendas has had significant consequences for the rule of law.
[No Equador] é necessária uma política de segurança de longo-prazo, que incorpora não só medidas punitivas, mas também um sistema judicial sem corrupção e intervenção social que lida com a origem da violência.
