Ecuador: Lenin vs. Lenin

8 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°

Carlos Aznárez

https://cnnespanol2.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/191007162314-cnndinero-ec-protests-100719-dinero-only-full-169.jpg?quality=100&strip=info&w=1200Insurrection has always been a weapon of humble peoples, those wretched of the earth of which Frantz Fannon spoke. It is a necessary alternative and a mirror in which one must obligatorily look at oneself, when the moment comes when the possibilities of dialogue with those above are exhausted, and the one below moves from the left. One fine day, the humiliated and dispossessed stand up and shout a forceful “enough is enough” and from that moment everything becomes possible, right up to the seizure of power.

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Tracking foreign interference in Hong Kong

8 October 2019 — Asia Times

Lawyer Lawrence Ma claims the US has been supporting the protests via groups such as the NED

By Pepe Escobar, Hong Kong

Lawrence YK Ma is the executive council chairman of the Hong Kong Legal Exchange Foundation and director of the China Law Society, the Chinese Judicial Studies Association and the Hong Kong Legal Exchange Foundation. He also finds time to teach law at Nankai University in Tianjin.

Ma is the go-to expert in what is arguably the most sensitive subject in Hong Kong: He meticulously tracks perceived foreign interference in the Special Administrative Region (SAR).

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Defending the Rule of Law….with HRC in the Wings Renée Parsons

9 October 2019 — True Publica

It has been more than fascinating if not totally absorbing to watch the chain of events unfold over recent days with the Democrats in open cahoots with the CIA.  Their joint goal is to remove the implacable Donald Trump from the Oval Office as two-time former Dem presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has suddenly emerged from the Swamp for a few media appearances.

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Ecuador News Links 9 October 2019

9 October 2019 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back

Popular Outrage Against Ecuador’s President Moreno. Deadly Wave of IMF Economic Reforms
https://www.globalresearch.ca/popular-outrage-against-ecuador-moreno/5691478

Ecuador’s President Moves Government Operations From Capital to Escape Protests
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/QvKVHBDf1xI/ecuadors-president-moves-government-operations-from-capital-to-escape-protests.html

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Mass protests against endemic poverty, government corruption convulse Haiti By Richard Dufour

9 October 2019 — WSWS

Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and several other major cities have been virtually shut down for the past three weeks in a continuation of mass anti-government protests that have erupted at regular intervals since July of last year. Impoverished youth from working-class neighborhoods have come out by the tens of thousands to denounce their hellish conditions of life.

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Ecuador’s president retreats from capital in face of growing mass protests By Andrea Lobo

9 October 2019 — WSWS

In the face of a continuing strike and a mass indigenous mobilization against an IMF-dictated austerity package, Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno moved his government from the capital of Quito to the coastal city of Guayaquil, where he is now directing a police-state crackdown.

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Ecuador raging against IMF’s measures, protesters storm parliament building

9 October 2019 — Counter Currents

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Amid widespread demonstrations by people, clashes with riot police, and general strike by transport workers over the International Monetary Fund (IMF) dictated neo-liberal measures, protesters stormed Ecuador’s parliament building in Quito, the capital city.

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Too hungry for power, too inept to rule: Moreno & his neoliberalism are behind Ecuador’s turmoil, ex-president Correa tells RT

8 October 2019 — RT

Too hungry for power, too inept to rule: Moreno & his neoliberalism are behind Ecuador’s turmoil, ex-president Correa tells RT

Demonstrators clash with police officers during a protest against austerity measures in Quito, Ecuador on October 8, 2019. © Reuters / Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Ecuadorian authorities are trying hard to shift the blame for ongoing protests on foreign influence, yet they are the ones who have mishandled the economy, and now refuse to give up power, ex-president Rafael Correa told RT.

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