This video explores the basics of Ecuadorian history and politics to explain why Ecuador had such a tumultuous history in the 19th century, how oil changed its economy, why it needed to dollarize its economy, and how its fragile democracy has fared since 1979. It begins with Juan José Flores, goes through Gabriel García Moreno, Eloy Alfaro and the upheaval of the 1990s and goes all the way to the end of Lenín Moreno's administration.

George M. Lauderbaugh, Frank W. Thackeray. 2012. History of Ecuador. Greenwood Histories of Modern Nations.

Collins, Jennifer. 2018. "Ecuador: Change And Continuity After Ten Years of New Left Revolution." In Latin American Politics and Development.