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Conservative ex-banker Lasso wins Ecuador’s presidential runoff
Apr 12, 2021 03:53Conservative candidate Guillermo Lasso has won Ecuador’s presidential runoff, defeating his Socialist rival, Andres Arauz.
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With likely victory of Andrés Arauz, Ecuador will join Latin America’s anti-imperialist surge
Jan 29, 2021 17:44Ecuador is just weeks away from becoming the latest Latin American nation to move away from the IMF and United States and elect a strongly progressive, anti-imperialist government.
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‘It's a tsunami’: COVID-19 plunges Latin America back into poverty, violence
Jul 10, 2020 04:13As Latin America grapples with a tragedy that has yet to fully play out, there are also growing fears about the coronavirus pandemic’s longer term impact on a region the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects to shrink 9.4 percent this year. Tens of millions are expected to be plunged into poverty and decades of social progress erased.
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Ecuador court upholds ex-vice president’s prison sentence
Oct 17, 2019 05:00Ecuador has reaffirmed the six-year prison sentence given to former Vice President Jorge Glas for receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks as part of a corruption scandal, the prosecutor's office says.
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Ecuador reverses austerity cuts in deal with indigenous people to end protests
Oct 14, 2019 09:46Ecuador has reversed a set of controversial austerity cuts as part of an agreement with indigenous people aimed at ending nearly two weeks of deadly protests that paralyzed the country and forced the government out of the capital, Quito.
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Ecuador government, protesters agree to talk amid curfew
Oct 13, 2019 10:34The United Nations (UN) and the Catholic Church say the government and indigenous groups in Ecuador have agreed to hold talks for the first time to end the crisis engulfing the Latin American country over fuel subsidy cuts.
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18 ways Julian Assange changed the world
Jul 19, 2019 08:49The exposure of the US crimes against humanity by the WikiLeaks site has annoyed Washington, which in collaboration with Britain and other client states, has put its founder in detention in London and is pressing for extradition, in a vain bid to stop the changes that have been brought worldwide by the Australian journalist, Julian Paul Hawkins, who goes by the penname “Assange”.
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Julian Assange formally refuses extradition to US
May 03, 2019 01:16WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told a British court that he would not surrender to a request for extradition to the United States where he would face trial for one of the largest compromises of classified information in US history.
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Remembering the crimes of the powerful exposed by Assange (2)
Apr 26, 2019 08:58Assange’s so-called “crime” was revealing deep, embarrassing, sometimes deadly, malfeasance by numerous actors, including the US government, the media, the Democratic Party-Clinton machine, and the illegal Zionist entity called Israel.
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Before ousting Assange, Moreno regime spied on the journalist for over a year (1)
Apr 24, 2019 05:46Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning brought the US government to its knees by exposing its torture of Guantanamo Bay detainees and war crimes in Iraq. They have been trying to recover ever since and the Trump administration is now more than ever willing to exact full revenge upon those who exposed the truth.