#ecuadorian politics

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 Ecuadorian drug traffickers take prison guards and police officers hostage and assassinate them on camera in a series of coordinated attacks across the South American country.]

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ECUADOR ERUPTS INTO VIOLENCE AND CHAOS AFTER CARTELS DECARE "WAR ON THE STATE", ARMED FORCES OF ECUADOR DEPLOY TROOPS

A State of Emergency was declared by the Ecuadorian President after a series of terrorist attacks, prison riots and kidnappings exploded into a day of chaos, after drug cartels declared "War on the State".

After a series of explosions, abductions of police officers, prison riots, the escape of a notorious gang leader from a high-security prison, and the storming of a live-tv broadcast of channel TC by gang members waving firearms and accosting television crews, the President of Ecuador declared a State of Emergency Wednesday, determining 22 of the nation's most prominent gangs to be terrorist organizations, announcing that the South American country was experiencing "internal armed conflict," and issueing a decree that included a curfew, which the gangs immediately violated.

Videos showing prison guards being subdued and killed have gone viral, while the search for "The Cheneros" gang leader, Jose Macias (aka Fito), goes on as the elusive criminal with ties to Mexican cartels evades capture.

Meanwhile, an explosive device was detonated in the vicinity of the residence of Ecuadorian Supreme Court President, Ivan Saquicela, in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, and several police officers have been kidnapped across the country.

Riots also broke out in several cities, with scenes of running crowds escaping explosions and gunfire, cars burning in the streets, the looting of warehouses, and the destruction of public infrastructure.

Several videos have also gone viral showing the assassination of police officers and prison guards.

The rioting Ecuadorian criminal organizations killed two police officers, Corporals Alex Taday and Luis Guanotuña in Nobol, located in the Guayas province.

In response to the violence, the Armed Forces of Ecuador have been mobilized, with troops deploying in several cities across the country in areas where riots and looting have broken out over the last day.

Reports from Ecuadorian Forces say more than 70 people tied to the violence and others with links to criminal enterprises have been detained, while three police officers being held hostage have been released.

The Armed Forces of Ecuador also added that 17 escaped prisoners were re-captured, adding that they had also seized weapons, ammunition and explosives from the armed groups.

Meanwhile, the Ecuadorian legislature announced blanket pardons and amnesties related to operations targeting the drug traffickers.

The President's decree determined the following organizations to be "terrorist organizations and belligerent non-state actors":

Aguilas, AguilasKiller, Ak47, Caballeros Oscuros, ChoneKiller, Choneros, Corvicheros, Cuartel de las Feas, Cubanos, Fatales, Ganster, Kater Piler, Lagartos, Latin Kings, Los Lobos, Los p.27, Los Tiburones, Mafia 18, Mafia Trebol, Patrones, R7 and Tiguerones.

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[tmarshconnors]

“If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.”

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. 

Founder of WikiLeaks: Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, a platform that publishes classified and sensitive information provided by anonymous sources. WikiLeaks gained international attention for releasing a large number of U.S. military and diplomatic documents in 2010.

Political Asylum in Ecuadorian Embassy: In 2012, Assange sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual misconduct. He remained in the embassy for nearly seven years until his asylum was revoked in April 2019, leading to his arrest by British authorities.

Legal and Extradition Battles: Assange has faced multiple legal challenges, including a protracted extradition battle with the United States, where he is wanted on charges related to the publication of classified documents. The U.S. indictment includes charges under the Espionage Act and accusations of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.

Publications and Impact: WikiLeaks' releases have had significant political and social impacts globally, including the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, diplomatic cables, and the Guantanamo files. These publications have sparked debates on government transparency, privacy, and the role of journalism in society.

Health and Imprisonment: Following his arrest in 2019, Assange has been held in Belmarsh Prison in London. Concerns have been raised about his physical and mental health, with various human rights organizations and supporters advocating for his release and criticizing his treatment in custody. HOWEVER Julian Assange released 24th June 2024.

[sharkspez]

Tumblr Biography: Julian Assange 🌐

As Assange sought refuge in the 🇪🇨 Ecuadorian embassy🏢, he believed he was fighting for ⚖️ justice. But was he actually stepping into a trap 🪤 of his own making?

[alpha-mag-media]

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[worldlibertytv]

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[mapsontheweb]

Do South American presidents have a dog?

by geo.facts_

Well, you might’ve never really thought about this, but are the South American presidents dog lovers ? It appears most of them are! Out of the 14 presidents in the continent, 11 presidents have a#dog .

This post shows some of the dogs owned by these politicians.

Argentina’s 🇦🇷 president, Javier Milei , owns four cloned dogs, they are exact genetical copies of his late dog named Conan. Milei has already publicly said that Conan helps him with some decisions of his life, he talks to him through a medium.

Brazil’s 🇧🇷 president, Lula , adopted two dogs named Resistência and Paris. Resistência (Resistance in Portuguese) was actually adopted by his wife when he was arrest€d for allegedly political cr!mes, he was later acquitted and became Brazil’s president.

The Chilean 🇨🇱 president, Boric , owns a dog named brownie that has his own instagram page! The account has more than 450K followers.

Bolivia’s 🇧🇴 president, Arce , owns a dog named Boyacá that was actually a gift from Venezuela’s 🇻🇪 president, Nicolas Maduro. The dog was gifted as a celebration due to both countries good relationships!

The Ecuadorian🇪🇨 president, Noboa ,has multiple dogs and actively talks about animals rights. The French 🇫🇷 president, Macron , owns a dog named Nemo, that is internet famous after a clip of him peeing during a presidential meeting circulated the whole internet. Macron recently adopted two more dogs!

Venezuela’s🇻🇪, Uruguay’s 🇺🇾 and Colombia’s 🇨🇴 Presidents also own dogs!

[probablyasocialecologist]

Ecuadorians voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to reject oil drilling in a section of Yasuní National Park, the most biodiverse area of the imperiled Amazon rainforest. Nearly 60% of Ecuadorian voters backed a binding referendum opposing oil exploration in Block 43 of the national park, which is home to uncontacted Indigenous tribes as well as hundreds of bird species and more than 1,000 tree species.

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Sunday's vote makes Ecuador the first country to restrict fossil fuel extraction through the citizen referendum process, according to Nemonte Nenquimo, a Waorani leader. "Yasuní, an area of one million hectares, is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth," Nenquimo wrote in a recent op-ed for The Guardian. "There are more tree species in a single hectare of Yasuní than across Canada and the United States combined. Yasuní is also the home of the Tagaeri and Taromenane communities: the last two Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in Ecuador." "Can you imagine the immense size of one million hectares?" Nenquimo added. "The recent fires in Quebec burned a million hectares of forest. And so the oil industry hopes to burn Yasuní. It has already begun in fact, with the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) oil project on the eastern edge of the park."

[enriquemzn262]

Last night, special forces of the Ecuadorian Police broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito, by direct orders of the president Daniel Noboa, in order to arrest former left wing president and convicted criminal Jorge Glass, wanted for corruption charges and sentenced to 8 years in prison, who back in December, taking advantage of a bond release, fled to the Mexican embassy seeking asylum, claiming the charges against him were politically motivated.

This after Mexico’s president, Lopez Obrador, made inflammatory comments regarding the murder of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, effectively implying his death was orchestrated by people close to Noboa in order to win him the election, which in turn confirmed Ecuadorian fear that the asylum request would be granted, as up to last night, Glas hadn’t been granted one, but was still allowed to stay inside the embassy.

Since 1980, this is the first time a Latin American government breaks into an embassy, something completely prohibited under international law.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Ecuador’s capital Quito on Friday night to arrest the former vice president, who is seeking asylum there, an escalation of tensions that Mexico decried as “an outrage against international law.”[...]

A rift between the two Latin American countries had been growing since Mexico’s decision to grant political asylum to Glas, vice president under leftist ex-President Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017.

Convicted twice on corruption charges, Glas says he is the subject of political persecution and had been sheltering inside the embassy.

But on Friday, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on his official X account, said he had been informed that “police from Ecuador forcibly entered” the Mexican embassy and took Glas – who “was a refugee and processing asylum because of the persecution and harassment he faces.”[...]

Mexico plans to lodge a complaint with the International Court of Justice to denounce the Ecuadorian police’s actions, the spokesperson for Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs added.[...]

Adding to current tensions was Lopez Obrador’s apparent criticism of Ecuador’s recent elections, saying the 2023 run-off vote took place in a “very strange” manner and suggesting that presidential candidates had used the media, presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio’s assassination and overall violence in their favor while campaigning.

The rift resulted in a series of diplomatic provocations this week, that also included Ecuador rejecting Mexico’s ambassador to the country, who was declared “persona non grata.”

6 Apr 24

[typhlonectes]

GOOD NEWS:

Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in a protected area

Ecuadorians voted against drilling for oil in a protected area of the Amazon, an important decision that will require the state oil company to end its operations in a region that’s home to isolated tribes and is a hotspot of biodiversity. With over 90% of the ballots counted by early Monday, around six in 10 Ecuadorians rejected the oil exploration in Block 43, situated within Yasuni National Park. The referendum took place along with the presidential election, which will be decided in a runoff between leftist candidate Luisa González and right-wing contender Daniel Noboa. The country is experiencing political turmoil following the assassination of one of the candidates, Fernando Villavicencio. Yasuni National Park is inhabited by the Tagaeri and Taromenani, who live in voluntary isolation, and other Indigenous groups. In 1989, it was designated, along with neighboring areas, a world biosphere reserve by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, also known as UNESCO. Encompassing a surface area of around 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres), the area boasts 610 species of birds, 139 species of amphibians and 121 species of reptiles. At least three species are endemic.

[alpha-mag-media]

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[ur-mag]

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[moonoftabantha]

Ecuador, 🇪🇨 país multicultural, de hermosos colores. Me vio nacer, crecer, enamorarme, y quiero envejecer en el. Es mi hogar. Y sé que no influenciaremos a muchos pero mandamos este mensaje los ecuatorianos para que llegue a alguien de la comunidad internacional y alcen voz y brinden ayuda a Ecuador. Siempre hemos sido un país pacífico, es verdad, jamás perfecto y q veces con política corrupta, pero siempre orgullosos de decir en el consuelo que éramos tranquilos, que nuestra gente no era cruel. Éramos buenos y aún creo que hay muchos de nosotros que seguimos siendo buenos. Por favor pidan por nosotros para que los narcoterroristas que azotan mi hogar se vayan y vuelva La Paz a mi hogar. Lamentablemente no podemos solos. Necesitamos que internacionalmente nos vean y nos ayuden, necesitamos fuerza.

Te extraño, Ecuador. Te extraño, Guayaquil, mi gente jocosa pero buena.

Ecuador, multicultural country, with beautiful colors. It saw me born, grow up, fall in love, and I want to grow old here. It's my home. And I know that we will not influence many but we Ecuadorians send this message so that it reaches someone in the international community and raises their voice and provides help to Ecuador. We have always been a peaceful country, it is true, never perfect and sometimes with corrupt politics, but always proud to say in comfort that we were calm, that our people were not cruel. We were good and I still think there are many of us who are still good. Please pray for us so that the narcoterrorists who plague my home leave and peace returns to my home. Unfortunately we cannot do it alone. We need people to see us internationally and help us, we need strength.

I miss you, Ecuador. I miss you, Guayaquil, my funny but good people.