Ecuador
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Corruption exposed: US meddled in Ecuador’s election, using Julian Assange as bargaining chip
Ecuador’s former energy minister testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement of ex President Rafael Correa. Continue reading
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US Media Cowers not Covers Chevron’s Prosecution of Human Rights Lawyer Donziger
Famed indigenous human rights lawyer Steven Donziger had already been under house arrest for over 800 days when he reported to prison on October 27 to begin a six-month sentence. His crime: winning the largest single pollution judgment in history, $9.5 billion, for the Cofan people of the Amazon rain-forest in Ecuador. Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Steven Donziger to six months in prison Friday for misdemeanor contempt of court after he had already spent 787 days under house arrest in New York. Continue reading
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Facing Prison for Fighting Chevron
It was back in 2007, when I found him in his thatched stilt home in the rainforest. Criollo told me his 5-year-old son had jumped into a swimming hole, covered with an enticing shine. The shine was oil sludge, illegally dumped. His son came up vomiting blood, then dropped dead in the Chief’s arms. Continue reading
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The CIA’s Chinese Walls
It is not in dispute that the CIA is in possession of Julian Assange’s legal and medical files seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy, including correspondence and drafting by his lawyers on his defence against extradition to the USA on Espionage charges. The defence submitted evidence of this in court. After Julian was arrested in the… Continue reading
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Judge Preska terminates all Zoom access to Donziger trial in effort to limit public access, say lawyers
U.S. trial judge Loretta Preska has denied all Zoom access to the upcoming contempt trial of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger in a widely condemned move that his lawyers say is designed to limit public access to an unprecedented one-sided trial run by a private Chevron prosecutor. Continue reading
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Millionaire Banker with Ties to Far-Right Wing Opus Dei Catholic Sect Defeats Socialist Candidate in Ecuador
12 April 2021 — Covert Action Magazine by Ron Ridenour Dirty Tricks in Race Pay Off Millionaire conservative Guillermo Lasso, former banker and Coca Cola director, won the run-off election over socialist candidate Andrés Arauz, 52.5% to 47.5%. Arauz had led the pack of 16 presidential candidates during the first round, on February 7th, with 32.7% Continue reading
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Ecuador: Lenin Moreno and the CIA against Andres Arauz
The second round of the Ecuadorian election between the candidate of the pro-Correa citizen revolution Arauz and the banker Lasso is approaching, and things are accelerating in the axis formed by Lenin Moreno and the United States, with its intelligence services at the forefront. Continue reading
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Ecuador: Between the Dispute for the Ballot and a Political Pact
Five days after the presidential and legislative elections in Ecuador, the National Electoral Council (CNE) has not yet finished counting 100% of the votes. However, with 99.88% of the ballots counted and 98.81% computed, it has been confirmed that Guillermo Lasso will enter the second round with 19.79% of the votes, while Yaku Perez, with… Continue reading
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Ecuador News Links 7-11 February 2021
11 February 2021 — The New Dark Age Ecuador’s US-Backed ‘Ecosocialist’ Candidate Yaku Pérez Aids The Right-Wing https://popularresistance.org/ecuadors-us-backed-ecosocialist-candidate-yaku-perez-aids-the-right-wing/ Continue reading
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Ecuador: reversing the pandemic slump?
The leftist candidate Andrés Arauz took the lead in the first round of the presidential elections in Ecuador. Arauz won 31.5 per cent of the vote, putting him about 11 percentage points clear of his nearest rivals. It was unclear who Arauz would face in the run-off. Indigenous leader Yaku Pérez and Guillermo Lasso, a… Continue reading
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Ecuador News Links 8 February 2021
8 February 2021 — The New Dark Age Ecuador: Andrés Arauz Has Declared Victory in the Presidential Elections https://libya360.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/ecuador-andres-arauz-has-declared-victory-in-the-presidential-elections/ Pandemic Capitalism and Resistance https://londongreenleft.blogspot.com/2021/02/pandemic-capitalism-and-resistance.html Continue reading
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In Ecuador, ‘Broken Windows Are Intolerable, but Broken People Are Fine’
Janine Jackson interviewed FAIR contributor Joe Emersberger about the Ecuador protests for the October 25, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Whitewashing Neoliberal Repression in Chile and Ecuador
Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, people are rising up against right-wing, US-backed governments and their neoliberal austerity policies. Continue reading
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Ecuador News Links 25 October 2019
25 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Burn, Neoliberalism, Burn http://thesaker.is/burn-neoliberalism-burn/ Whitewashing Neoliberal Repression in Chile and Ecuador https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/10/24/whitewashing-neoliberal-repression-in-chile-and-ecuador/ Continue reading
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Ecuador’s Austerity Measures, Repression Based on Lies AP Happily Spread
Bernie Sanders tweeted an Associated Press article in the LA Times (10/14/19) about Ecuador’s recent protests, in which eight protesters were killed in 11 days. “Economic elites keep pushing austerity worldwide, making life unbearable for working people,” Sanders declared. Unfortunately, that AP piece was itself a good example of how elites push for austerity. Continue reading
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To Defend Evo’s Victory is to Defend the Peace, Democracy, Prosperity and Sovereignty of Latin America as a Whole
A new chapter is added to the complex scenario recently configured in Latin America with the anti-neoliberal popular rebellions in Ecuador, Haiti and Chile, in which the right-wing forces that govern in those countries have responded with the most brutal repression: the disregard of Evo Morales’ resounding electoral triumph by the Bolivian and international right-wing,… Continue reading
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Ecuador News Links 22 October 2019
22 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Ecuador: From The Middle of the World to the End of the World https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/10/21/ecuador-middle-world-end-world The Joker and Latin American Turbulence https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/the-joker-and-latin-american-turbulence/ Continue reading
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Ecuador News Links 21 October 2019
21 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Peace Restored in Ecuador. But Is Trust Restored? https://www.globalresearch.ca/peace-restored-ecuador/5692594 Indigenous Rising in Ecuador and International Solidarity https://www.globalresearch.ca/indigenous-ecuador-international-solidarity/5692553 Continue reading
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