In the 1980s, after the soccer world cup in Argentina in 1978, color television arrived in Ecuador. which quickly replaced black and white television. The first television channel was channel 4 of HCJB, which was a channel of the Evangelical Religion, but when color television arrived, it was bought by the main road builder in Ecuador, which finished the construction of the Quito Guayaquil highway, through Santo Domingo. abandoned by a foreign company, which also had the largest and most modern cattle ranch on the coast in Santo Domingo, and the most modern urbanization in the north of Quito, which bears her name, but her son was caught up in parties and drugs with The richest drug trafficker in the country, the kingpin of the Three Kings cartel, supplier of Bolivian cocaine paste to Pablo Escobar and his Medellín cartel, lost his large estate, and sold his channel to a new rich man, who had the Diners Club card franchise, which created Teleamazonas.
While in Guayaquil, channel 8 Ecuavisa, was a family that had the magazine Vistazo, and Estadio, the most popular in the country. These television channels became the Fourth Power of the State and the main entertainment in the country's cities, while in the countryside, where most of the population was still, the radio continued to be a great power, the cradle of the organization peasant and liberation theology
Television managed to displace cinema, thanks to the fact that the films were shown on television, but above all, because they created an addiction to the news, soap operas, and tobacco in the population, while the radio was the one that created in the population the addiction to music, rumor, scandal, and alcohol.
Television was financed with the great advertising of cigarettes, tobacco, and industrial products, and was accompanied by the creation of shopping centers in Quito and Guayaquil, the arrival of the transistor, the expansion of telephony, the construction revolution, the use of concrete, iron, and cement, the change in roads for asphalt, the creation of sewage systems for sewage, drinking water, electricity networks, tall buildings, urbanizations, airports, bus stations, appeared. the gas stations, all this produced a brutal expansion of the cities, the great migration from the countryside to the city, where it was also possible to study for free at state universities, new professions, new ways of working such as masons, electricians, carpenters, mechanics, vendors, prostitutes, etc.
Quito, Guayaquil, Esmeraldas, Quevedo, Santo Domingo, grew out of control through land invasions, sponsored by left-wing movements such as that of Comandante Chiriboga in Esmeraldas, or bandit leaders, such as Toral Zalamea or Balerio Estacio in Guayaquil, who sold lands that were not theirs to the invaders, mostly migrants from the countryside, who were escaping the effects of El Niño, the floods or La Niña and its droughts. These bandit warlords turned the land invaders into their eternal debtors, selling them protection, water, garbage collection, and electricity, to some shacks made of cans and wood, which turned Guayaquil into one of the cities with the largest slum in South America.
Offering cheap housing, work, food, BREAD, ROOF, AND EMPLOYMENT, to the residents, especially in the cities with growing slums, was what gave Leon Febres Cordero victory, but the lack of water in the cities where the Residents had to collect it in tanks, from the rain or buy it from tankers, malaria multiplied, brought dengue fever that was unknown, typhoid that became epidemics, along with rabies in dogs or cats, as well as violence in the hungry and sick residents of these neighborhoods.
Toral Zalamea was the caudillo who gave the electoral victory to León Febres Cordero to become president and later, repeatedly mayor of Guayaquil. This capo, in addition to invading the hills of Guayaquil, appropriated the State University, with 60,000 students, lived there, hired and removed teachers, extorted students, sold university degrees, and took advantage of young women, making this university in the most corrupt university in the country, in his lair,
a territory of war with the MPD or Maoist party, or the ATALA, the movement of violent right-wing populists, headed by the Bucaram with Averroes, Elsa, who would be mayor, and Abdalá who became mayor of Guayaquil and president of Ecuador, brothers of the wife of Jaime Roldós.
When I was a student and later a professor at the Central University, this university was a stronghold of the MPD, it had become a business and a source of employment for its members.
