Los estados de excepción y los derechos humanos, una mirada crítica durante la pandemia de COVID en Ecuador

Abstract

The right to life in contemporaneity is systematically updated within the field of human rights. In this article, a documentary investigation is carried out whose objective was aimed at analyzing how the disproportionate and uncontrolled government exercised by the organs of power during the States of Exception, threatens human life in times of crisis and minimizes the exercise and enjoyment of human rights. Among the conclusions of this article, it should be noted that, although the State of Exception introduces limitations in the exercise of democracy, the Constitution stands as the best tool to guarantee the non-occurrence of extrajudicial and extra-human effects, being the Legislative Power through the Constitutional Court, the one in charge of safeguarding citizens' rights against any extra-legal or extra-human exercise of any measure taken by the Executive under the pretext of the State of Exception. It was also concluded that in the case of Ecuador under the State of Exception during Covid