Ecuador

By Daniel Edgar, Published on South Front, July 29, 2022: The massive Indigenous mobilization and social uprising in Ecuador that paralysed the country for most of June, led by the largest and [...]

By Joe Emersberger, Published on CounterPunch, July 13, 2022: From 2007-17 Ecuador was governed by the leftist government of Rafael Correa. In 2017 Lenin Moreno won the presidency by campaigning [...]

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. [...]

Guillermo Lasso, a former banker with close ties to the US, won the second round of Ecuador’s presidential election on 11 April, defeating progressive candidate Andrés Arauz. And his victory is [...]

Ecuador woke up with the news that Guillermo Lasso will be the new president. None of the crisis scenarios or disputes about the results happened: the candidate of the right wing won… By [...]

The second round of the Ecuadorian election between the candidate of the pro-Correa citizen revolution Arauz and the banker Lasso is approaching, and things are accelerating in the axis formed by [...]

The lead up to the second round elections in Ecuador have been marked by misinformation campaigns, a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases and fears of manipulation and fraud. By Zoe PC Published on [...]

Progressive candidate Andrés Arauz denounced actions of the prosecutor’s office and the comptroller’s office to seize electronic electoral information as an attempt to prevent run-off elections [...]

After negotiating innumerable tricky legal obstacles imposed by the National Electoral Council (following Lenin Moreno’s orders to get those who follow the beliefs of Rafael Correa out of the [...]

Exit polls show Ecuador’s progressive candidate Andrés Arauz winning the first round of the country’s presidential elections held on 7 February 2021. However, it appears that Arauz did not win by [...]