ABSTRACT
This paper uses the biopolitical paradigm to analyze the current situation in Ecuador, characterized by a “reinforced neoliberalism.” To do so, it differentiates between liberal and neoliberal governmentality, highlighting the importance acquired by the company in the latter, where it becomes an authentic socio-transcendental principle. It is shown how biopolitical strategies are essential to understand neoliberalism and how biopolitical sovereignty implies a decision on the nuda vida, all of which is linked to the thanatopolitical and necropolitical question. In contemporary Ecuador, the consolidation of the “necromarket” and “necro-state” cannot be separated from the deployment of neoliberalism.
