The Dirty Campaign Underlying Ecuador’s “Free and Fair” Election
Ecuador’s April 11 election that led to a 5-point victory by conservative banker Guillermo Lasso over progressive candidate Andrés Arauz was not what it appeared to be
View ArticleUS Role Behind the Defeat of Ecuador’s Leftist Presidential Candidate
Source: Orinoco Tribune The US role in the defeat of leftist Andrés Arauz in Ecuador’s presidential contest on April 11 was not overt because it did not need to be, according to a high-ranking Latin...
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Rights Attorney Pays Price for Defending Indigenous in Ecuador Poisoned by Oil
View ArticleEcuador’s Neoliberal Government Announces State Emergency to Impose Austerity
On October 18, 2021, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency for 60 days
View ArticleEcuador President’s neoliberal economic reforms face broad opposition
Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso’s support has eroded rapidly and he now is confronted by stiff opposition
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We are all, in a sense, the prisoners of corporations which dictate the terms on which we live
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18 Days of Resistance in Ecuador
Today these words can finally come out on paper, because the fear and the lump in the throat — for now — are appeased. The peace agreements with social justice between the organizations and the...
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Ecuador Has No Winners – Both Sides Will Pay for Peace
An 18-day national strike in Ecuador concluded on 30 June with the signing of a “peace accord” between the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and the government of President...
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‘They Have Already Destroyed Assange’
“The British are used to being obeyed, not to negotiate with a third-world country. They tried to deal with us like a subordinate country.” “Assange didn’t have any possibility of a fair legal process...
View ArticleEcuador’s Historic Strike
For eighteen days this June, thousands of Ecuadorians participated in a national strike that blocked highways across the country, paralyzed the capital city of Quito, and obstructed oil wells and...
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Environment Ministry Revokes Protected Status for Indigenous Lands in Ecuador
In Ecuador’s ’Referendum 2023’ on Sunday 5 February, citizens voted on eight government proposals for Constitutional reform, including one that affects the governance of Water Protection Areas (APH)...
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Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso Dissolves Parliament Through “Cross...
Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the National Assembly, the country’s unicameral parliament, on May 17. Photo: Guillermo Lasso/Twitter Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, on Wednesday,...
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When a CIA Asset Becomes a CIA Liability
Fernando Villavicencio, who with the Guardian’s Luke Harding and Dan Collyns fabricated the notorious Guardian front page lie that Paul Manafort and Julian Assange held pro-Trump meetings in the...
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‘Historic and Wonderful’: Ecuadorians Reject Oil Drilling in Precious Amazon...
Ecuadorians voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to reject oil drilling in a section of Yasuní National Park, the most biodiverse area of the imperiled Amazon rainforest. Nearly 60% of Ecuadorian voters...
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To Win the Run-off Election, Ecuador’s Left Must Confront the Mistakes of the...
On August 20, Ecuadorians went to the polls to elect a new president just over two years since the previous presidential elections of 2021. Luisa González of the Citizens’ Revolution party topped the...
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Ecuador Just Showed the World What it Means to Take Climate Change Seriously
In August, millions of Ecuadorians voted in a landmark referendum to halt oil exploration and development in the Yasuní National Park in the Amazon rainforest, one of the most biodiverse regions on...
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Ecuador’s Progressive Future at Stake in Upcoming Election
Imagine a developing country where a 43-year-old economist with a PhD from the University of Illinois, who is relatively unknown as a politician, runs for president and wins. Despite the preceding...
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Election Results in Ecuador
In runoff elections held on October 15, Ecuadorians elected Daniel Noboa to the presidency. These elections occurred amid the worsening of security and one of the worst economic crises Ecuador has ever...
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Ecuador’s Reactionary War
Civil rights annulled. Soldiers in the streets, curfews enforced. Armed men in masks patrol neighborhoods. Packets of marijuana and boxes of money laid out and photographed. US State Department...
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Chaos in Ecuador
In recent years, the surging violence in Ecuador has made international headlines. Initially, coverage centred on frequent prison riots and massacres, which have claimed four hundred lives since 2021....
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Mexico Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Ecuador After ‘Intolerable’ Quito Embassy Raid
Mexico on Friday night announced the suspension of diplomatic relations with Ecuador after police stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito and kidnapped former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who was...
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Ecuador is Not For Sale
Teargas for mega-mines Corporations and their government enablers prefer to keep the ecocidal and ethnocidal reality of extractivism hidden, but activists in Ecuador are exposing the truth. The...
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Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood
Ahead of the United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to...
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What Ecuador’s Lawless Assault on Mexico Means
The U.S. puppet in Ecuador, President Daniel Noboa, is on quite a roll. First Mexico severs diplomatic relations with Ecuador, after cops storm the Mexican embassy on April 5 to arrest former vice...
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Why People of Ecuador Were Right to Keep the Corporate Courts Out
The people of Ecuador have given a resounding NO to the return of secretive, foreign corporate courts suing the Ecuadorian state for democratic decisions. In a referendum held last week, Ecuador voted...
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The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. This quip by the American essayist Charles Dudley Warner applies to fossil fuels as well. Everyone talks about ending fossil...
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What Is Actually Being Done to Phase Out Fossil Fuels?
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. This quip by the American essayist Charles Dudley Warner applies to fossil fuels as well. Everyone talks about ending fossil...
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Democracy Dies in Crude Oil
Environmental activists rarely get to celebrate a major win for the planet, but that’s what happened in Ecuador in August last year. After a decade-long struggle between activists and the government, a...
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‘Time is water’: A Cross-Border Indigenous Alliance Works to Save the Amazon
YURIMAGUAS, Alto Amazonas, Peru — Our boat sets sail early in the morning. The plan is to travel down the Huallaga River, reach the Marañón, then sail north along the Santiago River towards the border...
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Amid Harsh Deportation From the U.S, Ecuador Held Sharply Polarized Elections
As U.S. military cargo planes have begun landing in Ecuador transporting deported Ecuadorians under the Trump regime, with their wrists and ankles bound, Ecuador held General Elections on February 9,...
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