By Michael Otto, Ibarra, Ecuador, May 2025 Long-time US resident of Ecuador analyses results of Ecuador’s recent elections The people of Ecuador were the big losers in the second round of the April 13 elections. Left forces were gravely wounded. Luisa González, the progressive candidate for the party called Revolución Ciudadana (RC) was crushed in … Read More
President Daniel Noboa is trying to come to grips with the criminal gangs that have driven up Ecuador’s murder rate Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, has said he wants to change his country’s constitution to allow the presence of foreign military bases. He made the proposal 15 years after the last US … Read More
US Troops Will Return to Ecuador, Decades after Removal by Correa By Benjamin Zinevich, February 20, 2024 Daniel Noboa with the National Police and Armed Forces of Ecuador Photo: Presidencia Ecuador Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa ratified military cooperation agreements between Ecuador and the United States on February 15. The agreements regarding joint … Read More
By Stansfield Smith During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. Soft coups, a new strategy, are a significant change from the brutal 1970s military hard coups in … Read More
By Roger D. Harris The US role in the defeat of leftist Andrés Arauz in Ecuador’s presidential contest on April 11 was not overt because it did not need to be, according to a high-ranking Latin American diplomat. We met with the diplomat and others on an official election observation delegation with CODEPINK. Names of … Read More