Picture transformed with LLMs from the original spanish here :
D.Noboa is a close american friend, so he won't be critized(, interestingly using tariffs against Colombia, seems like a ~new part of the western playbook).
His strategy of violence only produced more violence than there ever was in Ecuador, with a militarization creeping into the streets, prisons and civil institutions. Of course, he's opening the doors wide to western interests, with an insistance on using international tribunals(, usually more favorable to western interests but forbidden by the ecuadorian constitution,) instead of the local ones.
As a capitalist(/rent-seeker/exploiter) himself, he probably doesn't care that western investments only benefit a small ecuadorian "elite", contrary to state enterprises.
This is how he seems to react to protesters/opponents, and here's a detail on how he's destroying privacy in the name of security(, seems familiar).
Lenín Moreno betrayed Rafael Correa in an unbelievable manner, probably because of western pressures, i never understood how such thing could have happened.
D.Noboa won in the last elections against Luisa González despite the surveys, but lost referendums soon after(, 6 months and 2 years afterwards, not respected), raising accusations of fraud. In any case, he multiplied the raids against her and others like Andrés Arauz or Aquiles Álvarez afterwards, and now banned their political party.
If Ecuador was walking towards direct democracy, and was under attack/sanctions from the Empire, then banning some foreign-backed opponents from participating would be less shocking, because a "fair" treatment wouldn't adjust for the bias of the situation. Ideally it wouldn't happen, but also, in such ideal world, the population wouldn't be influenced by the sanctions when choosing their candidate, and leaving the political power to the right/bourgeoisie wouldn't imply that it'd try to keep it by cheating, lawfare, censorship of leftist medias(, as the new bolivian president did), ...
It's already unfair enough to vote in countries where the bourgeoisie bought (almost )all medias.
Each south-american country had its western-backed anti-communist dictator, and Ecuador was no exception with Guillermo Rodríguez Lara.
Anyway, Daniel Noboa will obviously not be kidnapped, bombed, or sanctioned, it's if he's deposed that ecuadorians will have to fear such thing.
You won't even hear of him, and if you do then our "diverse" medias(, do you happen to know of a communist or anti-imperialist TV/radio channel in your country ?,) will all speak about him simultaneously with the same point of view, and it'd be in order to manufacture our consent for an operation, as usual.
More on Ecuador, and here on Bolivia.
Edit : He just banned AMIGO, after previous persecutions last December : https://x.com/i/status/2078280982247989294
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eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 169d
he can't keep the election fraud going onto the next elections. lol
Pierre121000@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 168d
Well, Călin Georgescu was forbidden from participating in the 2025 elections despite winning the first round, and Nicușor Dan ended up being the romanian president.
Moldova successively banned the Șor Party in June 2023, the Chance Party in November 2023, the Victory Bloc in 2024, and the Heart of Moldova in September 2025, but as for Ecuador you'll never hear about that !
« the pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc has 26.6%. The Russia-friendly Alternativa Bloc stood at 8.6% and the populist Our Party — which wants "balanced foreign policy" between East and West — has 6.3% », they also banned 18 Russian-language television channels and over 60 internet resources, and restricted access to opposition politicians' channels on social media and internet platforms, while pro-western media operate in Moldova without restrictions to manipulate the votes.
Hungary is under sanctions. His opponent can do everything it wants now that he won(, he also modified the constitution to force the president into quitting three years earlier). I learned about Poland from Zbigniew Ziobro, who faces 26 charges over the alleged misuse of the Justice Fund, and whose tweet was posted five days before being the subject of an extradition request to the United States.
From 2015 to 2023, the Law and Justice party(, PiS), close with Viktor Orbán, held the power in Poland, but lost in December 2023 to Donald Tusk, much more fiercely anti-Russian, and previously in power from 2007 to 2014.
PiS then had its annual public funding reduced by 40%(, an alleged&contested misuse of state resources during the 2023 campaign).
Then not only did Donald Tusk replaced the management of public television, radio, and the state news agency, but he also placed them in liquidation(, which may not lead to their dismantlement, it's apparently more of a legal reason/structure to end their independence, their liquidators being appointed directly by the polish government).
Journalists from the conservative, PiS-aligned TV Republika and wPolsce24 have repeatedly been denied accreditation to government press conferences and other official events, and then completely lost their broadcasting licence, their appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court is still pending so they're allowed to continue broadcasting until then, they're two large channels, even more in a "news channel" narrower ranking. On the other side, he declared TVN and Polsat as “strategic companies”, so that the ownership of these large private channels can no longer be transferred without government approval, to pro-russian people for instance(, which was the official reason).
The former minister of Justice isn't the only one persecuted, there were also the former interior minister Mariusz Kamiński in January 2024 with his deputy, and the former deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski in July 2024, as well as the former intelligence chief Piotr Pogonowski, and National Bank governor Adam Glapiński.
He fired the National Prosecutor against the decision of the president and the Supreme Court, and since the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland was apparently too favorable to PiS, Tusk's government just refused to publish any Tribunal's judgment since March 2024, both institutions have still not resolved this conflict and the Constitutional Tribunal continues to issue judgments that the government refuses to publish.
Despite that, in May 2024 the EU ended his article 7 procedure against disobedient member states to exclude them, they also gave Poland €137 billion a few months earlier, you now know the acceptable limits to the left and the right.
Ukraine overthrew Yanukovych with the help of the west, and already started after 2004 to "promote the ukrainian language" by enforcing subtitles, imposing ukrainian in the administration(, reverted in 2012 with Yanukovych), having more and more conflicts with Russia, promoting Stepan Bandera and others, they also launched a witch hunt against their anti-e.u. opponents(, e.g. Borys Kolesnykov). In Moldova, Ilan Shor and others were also attacked before 2014 under what may have been false pretenses.
In Estonia, they went even further by banning 6.1% of their population from voting.
In Latvia, the Harmony party was the main force of opposition but has now virtually disappeared after 2022, even if their leader Nils Ušakovs was already accused of corruption in 2019. And many diverse things against pro-russians
In Bulgaria, they tried to ban the Vazrazhdane party but ended up failing, so it's now the third political party of the country.
It is good to know that with the Magnitsky Act, the u.s. can just ban pro-russian political candidates from participating. They sanctioned Delyan Peevski and Vasil Bozhkov in 2021, as well as Vladislav Goranov in 2023.
The Magnitsky act was used in other countries of the eastern bloc as well : Aleksandar Vulin in Serbia in 2023, Milorad Dodik in Bosnia from 2022 to 2024, Antal Rogán in Hungary in 2025, Vakhtang Gomelaur in Georgia in 2024, ...
Slovenia
When/If such means were used by governments opposed to Brussels they were described as democratic backsliding, but now it's democratic restoration, what a contradiction.
And we'll only hear about, e.g., Georgia or Hungary, or other opponents, exaggerating their misdeeds while ignoring ours
Pro-Russia Narek Karapetyan in Armenia as well
In New Caledonia, France just closed 48 polling stations out of 56, greatly complicating the votes for the poorest part of the population(, usually pro-independence). I'm from France and that's one more thing not known.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 167d
a tale as old as time. lol