Crowded between Colombia and Peru, with an extended coast of the Pacific Ocean lies the country of Ecuador - on both sides of the equator. We learned about it thanks to Assange only.
Meanwhile, over 16 million live there (16.6 million, almost twice as much as in Belarus).
Interestingly, there are only 7% of whites, but Indians - a whole quarter of the population, 25%. Métis - 65%.
That is, in fact, this is an Indian country. And on the streets exclusively people with Native American faces walk. There are even blacks in a deep minority - only 3%.
This is me so that you understand what kind of population there is.
They have a powerful organization in Ecuador - the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador. Quechua Indians are no less spoken than Spanish.
So, in Ecuador, the people rebelled! Freedom-loving Indians.
The president with the strange name of Lenin (full president's title: Lenin Voltaire Moreno Garces) in early October of this year canceled subsidies for the purchase of fuel abroad. The subsidy program cost Ecuador’s budget $ 1.3 billion annually. (What is interesting is that in a country where the names Lenin and Voltaire are in use (in Ecuador), they are on the American currency - the dollar.) Subsidies were introduced back in the 70s of the last century, and everyone got used to them. And then suddenly canceled.
Naturally, fuel prices skyrocketed. More than 120% (well, they say).
Mass protests flared up immediately: car tires were being burned in Quito, young people running around with rags wrapped around their faces, throwing stones, and 477 people were arrested. Now, maybe more. Already on October 6, and also on October 7 and 8, significant forces of the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador arrived in the capital of Quito. That is, the Indians began to arrive (unknown, in feathers or in polyester jackets), but freedom-loving Indians. The last and decisive battle was scheduled for October 9th.
President Moreno canceled his visit to Germany and declared a state of emergency. The Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador promised to bring 20 thousand of its supporters to the capital.
President Moreno considered it good to escape from the capital of Quito with his government to the city of Guayaquil, located somewhere 400 km from Quito. (According to other sources, Guayaquil is located 250 km from Quito, but rather, judging by the map, I believe the figure is 400 km.) Apparently, Moreno was scared. A curfew has been introduced.
Here you still have to turn to Assange. Ecuador would not have had such an international promotion without this Australian subordinate. A little bit about him and Ecuador.
An ex-president of Ecuador, named Correa, allowed Assange to enter the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012, where Assange used the right of political asylum.
And Lenin Moreno (despite the fact that he came to power as a vice president with Correa and became known as a leftist in his country) after being elected president in May 2017 (by the way, on the direct recommendation of Correa) suddenly became a traitor to leftist ideas, became a fan Trump, took citizenship from Assange in 2018 and extradited Assange to the British police in April 2019.
And Assange is now sitting in a British prison for his 11 months of British sentence, and then he will most likely be extradited to the United States. Where are charges awaiting him under 17 articles, poor Assange.
Therefore, we are following you with Ecuador. For one reason: Assange. Nevertheless, the role of personality in history is great, we are convinced.
And what is happening there in Ecuador, we are following. If it weren’t for Assange, then they wouldn’t know anything - there are few states in Latin America!
And the Eurocentric inhabitants of Europe (and the Russians are the largest European nation and also Eurocentric) are not particularly interested in what is happening there in Latin America, it is good if they read “One Hundred Years of Solitude” or “Nobody Writes to the Colonel.” Meanwhile, people live there, worry, breathe passion and rebel.
The rebels already captured three enterprises in the country. And Moreno had already fled to Guayaquil. When the president flees the capital, what does it mean?
And the fact that he was defeated.
That's how he spits. On Twitter, imitating Trump. This is whom he accuses - the former president of Correa, the president of Venezuela Maduro (!!!) and corruption, which invariably causes hatred of citizens in Russia, in France, and in Ecuador. Although what kind of corruption is Moreno talking about. The names of corrupt officials?
“What is happening demonstrates the political intentions of Correa, Maduro and corrupt officials, who must answer justice and the whole country for destabilization” - from Moreno Twitter, who dirty our name of Lenin.
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Protesters first gathered in El Arbolito Park. It was from there that the march began, during which the first clashes with the police began.
Participants in the march (those same young people with ragged faces) began to throw stones at the police, and the police used tear gas. Everything, as it should be in rebellion.
We are waiting for the news. As weird as possible ...
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