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 […]
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
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