In part 3 of our documentary series on the indigenous-led rebellion against the neoliberal policies of Ecuador’s billionaire president, Guillermo Lasso, we examine the government’s agreement with the strikers and the tactics that overcame Quito’s harsh repression.
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The Grayzone interviews leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous-led revolt against the neoliberal policies of billionaire banker and President Guillermo Lasso, documenting how his security forces have escalated violent repression against demonstrators, and treated them as enemy combatants while protest ranks fill with society’s most desperate members.
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The Grayzone spoke with leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous movements, now engaged in ferocious street protests against the privatization policies of President Guillermo Lasso, a billionaire banker. The activists defended their demands and detailed the brutal repression they have witnessed as their rebellion spreads across one of the last right-wing controlled countries on the South American continent.
When socialist Rafael Correa became Ecuador’s president, CIA cutouts poured money into environmental and Indigenous groups, while the US embassy cultivated opportunistic leaders to undermine his constituency. These forces helped secure victory for right-wing banker Guillermo Lasso in 2021. (Aquí puedes leer este artículo en español.) The people of Ecuador were hit by a surprise in the April 2021 presidential election: Hard-right banker Guillermo Lasso, one of the richest and most corrupt oligarchs in the country, who had unsuccessfully run […]
A group of academics have circulated a lie-filled open letter aimed at censoring The Grayzone’s reporting on Ecuador’s pseudo-progressive candidate Yaku Pérez. Several of its signatories supported the far-right military coup in Bolivia in 2019 and backed Venezuela’s US-appointed proxy Juan Guaidó. A collection of coup-supporting academics are lobbying to censor The Grayzone’s factual journalism exposing Ecuador’s presidential candidate Yaku Pérez.
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The post neo-liberal regimes which flourished in five Latin American countries in the first decade of the 21st century were a product of three inter-related historical processes.
