Ecuador

Are Biden and Trump part of the same conspiracy? Biden's re nomination of Reardon, pro ISDS, anti indigenous rights lawyer raises questions .

Submitted by zed2 on Tue, 02/01/2022 - 7:38pm

There is a war going on between US corporations and the whole world over the so called "right to mine" shared resources like water are being rapidly privatized around the world and corporations want mining them until they are gone to be a right, an entitlement.

It seems that Biden is turning out to be a kind of extremist for the neoliberal corporate war. Its his discretion who he wants to nominate to the Federal bench.

Socialists win in Ecuador

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 02/07/2021 - 8:15pm

It wasn't a landslide, but it's still a decisive victory for the leftist candidate over the neoliberal one.

Ecuador government flees angry anti-IMF protests

Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 10/08/2019 - 1:50pm

Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, and the rest of the government has fled the capital of Quito to the coastal city of Guayaquil.

Assange situation about to come to an end

Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 1:13am

Six days ago Julian Assange, apparently frustrated by being cut off from the outside world for months, made a mistake.

South America's "soft" right-wing coups

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 9:57pm

The announcement by the government of Ecuador that Julian Assange was being evicted from the embassy coincided with this important event that happened just three weeks earlier.

The IMF's re-invasion of Latin America

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 08/08/2018 - 5:33pm

The announcement by the government of Ecuador that Julian Assange was going to be expelled from their embassy caught some people by surprise.

Ecuador earthquake of 7.8 magnitude kills dozens

Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Sun, 04/17/2016 - 4:38am

Just one day after Japan suffered a second, and larger earthquake than the one that hit on Thursday, Ecuador has been hit with a very big quake... At least 77 people are dead and 500+ are injured, so far.