Abstract

ZARUMA AVILA, David Ramiro. Social Resistance and the Progressive Use of Force in the Social Protests. Foro [online]. 2023, n.39, pp.107-127. ISSN 2631-2484.  https://doi.org/10.32719/26312484.2023.39.6.

That citizens can resist the oppression of a tyrannical power or can protest against government measures in a democratic society is a right recognized since the beginning of modernity, and as such has been incorporated into most current constitutional texts. This review article aims to analyze the tensions that are generated between the progressive use of force in the marches and protests that take place in Ecuador, and the exercise of the constitutional right to resistance recognized in the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador. 2008, by examining the concepts and categories related to the subject and the current regulatory framework applicable both to the exercise of the aforementioned right and to the progressive and proportional use of force by members of the National Police. The result is a systematization of the tensions that occur between the right to social protest and the action of the Ecuadorian State. From the methodological point of view, a documentary review is carried out to characterize the current situation in the country, in the face of citizen protests that are developed due to di sagreements regarding the public policies that the governments of the day have adopted.

Keywords : Human rights; Social protest; Resistance; Use of force; Social march; International standards; Principle of typicality; Social tensions.

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