Tag: ecuador
Kidnapping and murders as Ecuador and Colombia's border crisis heightens
by Friends of TFC • May 3, 2018
Journalists being targeted and the shadow of FARC.
In the Depths of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Digital Communications Aid the Process of Self-Determination
by Friends of The Fifth Column • July 28, 2017
(GVO) – Residing within the southern part of Ecuador's Amazon region, the approximately 1,200-strong Kichwa community of Sarayaku have drawn international attention for their battles over land and indigenous rights—battles that have relied on worldwide support. Since 1996, when the Ecuadorian…
A Photographer Shines Light on the Abuse Women Suffer at Illegal 'Conversion Therapy' Clinics in Ecuador
by Friends of The Fifth Column • May 24, 2017
Ecuador (GV) – Ecuadorian artist Paola Paredes has created a photo series, titled "Until You Change", to protest against the existence of underground centers intended to "cure" homosexuality in Ecuador. Most of these illegal centers are disguised as religious "clinics" to rehabilitate those…
Protests and Fraud Allegations Follow Ecuador's Presidential Election
by Friends of The Fifth Column • April 6, 2017
Ecuador (GV) – Following intense campaigning from candidates Guillermo Lasso and Lenin Moreno, it was the latter who was declared the winner of the presidential run-off election in Ecuador on April 2. However, the opposition and Lasso's supporters are alleging fraud…
How protests forced Ecuador's upcoming runoff presidential election
Ecuador (WNV) – The runoff election for Ecuador's next president is on April 2, and it will be the first time in 10 years that Rafael Correa — the popular current president, who has served two terms — isn't on the…
Ecuador votes to bar politicians from having assets in tax havens
by Friends of The Fifth Column • February 21, 2017
Ecuador (NI) – It is official: the 'yes' vote wins in the country's historic referendum Ecuadoreans have voted to bar politicians and civil servants from having assets, companies or capital in tax havens. Some 54.5 per cent of the nation's electorate voted…
'On the other side': Ecuador's foreign minister blasts Britain on tax justice
Ecuador (NI) –The country often blocks regulation of tax havens and other predatory fiscal policies argues Ecuador's Foreign Minister Guillaume Long, in an exclusive interview with Britain is a country that often sits 'on the other side of the fence'…
Women Facing Violence in Ecuador Vow to Be 'Silent No More'
by Friends of The Fifth Column • February 2, 2017
Ecuador (GV) – The activists say they want to "break the silence." According to the 2011 National Survey of Familial Relations and Gender Violence, six out of every ten women in Ecuador have been victim of some kind of abuse. This January, the initiative…
Ecuador. The CIA Agent Known as Swat, Plus Others
by Friends of TFC • June 27, 2016
A mural hanging inside the Ecuadorian parliament building by the famous Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamín, titled «Imagen de la Patria», includes an image of a grinning skull in a helmet emblazoned with the acronym «CIA». When the mural was first unveiled in August 1988, Guayasamín explained that this image epitomized all the foreign threats to his native country. And for almost three decades this «CIA skull» has gazed out at the deputies in parliament with a sinister grin.
The CIA's fingerprints are visible in dozens of incidents in Ecuador in which politicians who threatened US foreign policy were eliminated. For example, in May 1981 the airplane carrying President Jaime Roldós crashed in the province of Loja, a mountainous region of Ecuador. President Reagan had had a hostile relationship with the Ecuadorians: Roldós had refused the invitation to his inauguration and maintained friendly relations with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the Cuban government. He also demonstrated his solidarity with the Revolutionary Democratic Front in El Salvador, which opposed the military dictatorship. Roldós was planning to reorganize Ecuador's oil industry, jeopardizing the interests of transnational oil corporations. Roldós was discarded because of a «whole array of grievances».
Once Rafael Correa took office, the CIA stepped up its work in Ecuador. In a recent interview Correa mentioned that in the early days of his administration a certain American diplomat requested a meeting, during which he introduced himself as «the official representative of the CIA» in Ecuador. That individual also emphasized that he acted independently of the US ambassador. As Correa noted, at that time «the Americans still thought they could take control of our government».
Chevron and Ecuadorian Plaintiffs Will Face Off in Canada
by The Fifth Column • September 12, 2015
Supreme Court Ruling Allows Farmers to Pursue $9.5 Billion Judgment
#HackingTeam Leaks: Ecuador is Spending Millions on Malware, Pro-Government Trolls
by The Fifth Column • August 5, 2015
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The damage for which Chevron has failed to compensate its victims in Ecuador
by The Fifth Column • July 9, 2015
Chevron-Texaco at play in Ecuador.
Ecuador and Greece – Two Different Struggles
A tale of two economies.
Intag's Nightmare: Adding Up The Costs Of Ecuador's Mineral Wars
by The Fifth Column • May 12, 2015
Ecuador's citizens still battling with international mining operations.