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D.Noboa is a close american friend, so he won’t be critized(, interestingly using tariffs against Colombia, seems like a ~new part of the western playbook).
His strategy of violence only produced more violence than there ever was in Ecuador, with a militarization creeping into the streets, prisons and civil institutions. Of course, he’s opening the doors wide to western interests, with an insistance on using international tribunals(, usually more favorable to western interests but forbidden by the ecuadorian constitution,) instead of the local ones.
As a capitalist(/rent-seeker/exploiter) himself, he probably doesn’t care that western investments only benefit a small ecuadorian “elite”, contrary to state enterprises.
This is how he seems to react to protesters/opponents, and here’s a detail on how he’s destroying privacy in the name of security(, seems familiar).
Lenín Moreno betrayed Rafael Correa in an unbelievable manner, probably because of western pressures, i never understood how such thing could have happened.
D.Noboa won in the last elections against Luisa González despite the surveys, but lost referendums soon after(, 6 months and 2 years afterwards), raising accusations of fraud. In any case, he multiplied the raids against her and others like Andrés Arauz or Aquiles Álvarez afterwards, and now banned their political party.

If Ecuador was walking towards direct democracy, and was under attack/sanctions from the Empire, then banning some foreign-backed opponents from participating would be less shocking, because a “fair” treatment wouldn’t adjust for the bias of the situation. Ideally it wouldn’t happen, but also, in such ideal world, the population wouldn’t be influenced by the sanctions when choosing their candidate, and leaving the political power to the right/bourgeoisie wouldn’t imply that it’d try to keep it by cheating, lawfare, censorship of leftist medias(, as the new bolivian president did), …
It’s already unfair enough to vote in countries where the bourgeoisie bought (almost )all medias.
Each south-american country had its western-backed anti-communist dictator, and Ecuador was no exception with Guillermo Rodríguez Lara.

Anyway, Daniel Noboa will obviously not be kidnapped, bombed, or sanctioned, it’s if he’s deposed that ecuadorians will have to fear such thing.
You won’t even hear of him, and if you do then our “diverse” medias(, do you happen to know of a communist or anti-imperialist TV/radio channel in your country ?,) will all speak about him simultaneously with the same point of view, and it’d be in order to manufacture our consent for an operation, as usual.

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    he can’t keep the election fraud going onto the next elections. lol