How Ecuador's US-backed, coup-supporting 'ecosocialist' candidate aids the right-wing | The Grayzone
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Ecuador’s third-place presidential candidate Yaku Pérez and his US-backed party Pachakutik supported coups in Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. His supposedly “left-wing” environmentalist campaign is being promoted by right-wing corporate lobbyists. Ecuador’s historic February 7 election could bring a popular revolutionary movement back from the dead and help fuel a new wave of socialist governments in Latin America. The contrast between the two main presidential candidates could hardly be more stark: On one side is a conservative banker backed by […]

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  • astigmatic [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    he’s not an ecosocialist nor does he call himself that. he represents the right wing of the party and was antidemocratically nominated, so there’s been a lot of infighting about whether to support him.

    the results aren’t looking too bad... lasso passed yaku for second place, which makes an arauz victory likelier, while pachakutik is getting a legislative plurality (in a huge leap since the last election!) and the right is eating shit