I cannot stress this enough: What we are seeing in Ecuador is an attempt to steal an election from a popular leftist candidate.The US, OAS and Colombia are meddling in Ecuador's internal affairs.And the electoral body is conspiring with the 2nd/3rd place neoliberal candidates— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) February 13, 2021
You all really need to stop trusting Ben Norton takes on Ecuador lol or even just generally anything coming out of Gray Zone.
Like what's the conspiracy? The CIA rigged the election for yaku, then unrigged it for lasso?
Also I get the need to defend Correa against libs but since this is a leftist forum you should be able to recognize that Correa was really awful, particularly towards the end of his presidency with the way he betrayed Yasuni and just generally the indigenous population. Like Literally their ML party said it was worth it to vote for the banker against Moreno last election for damage control it was so bad.
Also yes he did give shelter to assange but meanwhile he was attacking free press domestically and even gave himself his own show which is why he has a trump like reputation among a lot of the principled leff there.
Not to mention in the past week he's come out as pro life bc hedonistic women don't need abortions and gay rights don't matter and are just a distraction to his principled leftism.
And he may have been against the US and IMF but he also got them like 8billion dollars in oil debt to China that is going to require destroying some of the most biosiverse regions of the entire Amazon to repay.
Like I know class reductionism isn't actually a thing and tankie has kinda lost its meaning but Correa could easily be insulted with both.
You all really need to stop trusting Ben Norton takes on Ecuador lol or even just generally anything coming out of Gray Zone.
Like what's the conspiracy? The CIA rigged the election for yaku, then unrigged it for lasso?
Also I get the need to defend Correa against libs but since this is a leftist forum you should be able to recognize that Correa was really awful, particularly towards the end of his presidency with the way he betrayed Yasuni and just generally the indigenous population. Like Literally their ML party said it was worth it to vote for the banker against Moreno last election for damage control it was so bad.
Also yes he did give shelter to assange but meanwhile he was attacking free press domestically and even gave himself his own show which is why he has a trump like reputation among a lot of the principled leff there.
Not to mention in the past week he's come out as pro life bc hedonistic women don't need abortions and gay rights don't matter and are just a distraction to his principled leftism.
And he may have been against the US and IMF but he also got them like 8billion dollars in oil debt to China that is going to require destroying some of the most biosiverse regions of the entire Amazon to repay.
Like I know class reductionism isn't actually a thing and tankie has kinda lost its meaning but Correa could easily be insulted with both.