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While the US govt and corporate media demonize Venezuela, Ecuadorians are rising up against the brutal repression and neoliberal economic reforms of Lenin Moreno, a close ally of Washington who calls them “zánganos,” or drone bees
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/07/ecu…
via @GrayzoneProject
@GrayzoneProject The uprising is growing in Ecuador against the US-backed regime's brutal austerity and neoliberal economic reforms.

After declaring a "national emergency," Ecuador has now taken the extreme move of changing its seat of government from Quito to Guayaquil
metroecuador.com.ec/ec/noticias/20…
@GrayzoneProject Ecuador's corrupt right-wing US-backed president Lenín Moreno blamed the huge protests against his neoliberal IMF reforms on Venezuelan president Maduro & leftist ex-president Correa

And of course US regime media VOA is helping amplify this disinformation
voanoticias.com/a/lenin-moreno…
@GrayzoneProject After selling out his country to the US empire, Ecuador's right-wing president Moreno is now retweeting far-right Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó, Washington's absurdly corrupt puppet

Both of them are blaming the huge anti-neoliberal protests on Maduro
web.archive.org/web/2019100816…
In 2005 Ecuadorians pushed out their corrupt neoliberal government in an uprising that ushered in Correa's Citizens' Revolution

The situation today is looking quite similar, as President Lenín Moreno flees large protests in the capital Quito for Guayaquil
The US-backed Ecuadorian regime of Lenín Moreno just imposed a curfew, between 8 pm and 5 am

This is after it declared a state of "national emergency" to justify cracking down on massive protests against brutal austerity policies
elcomercio.com/actualidad/mor…
Ecuador's US-backed right-wing leader Moreno blamed leftist ex-president Rafael Correa for the massive anti-austerity protests rocking the country.

Correa replied: "The coup plotters are you, who have broken the Constitution as many times as you want" orinocotribune.com/correa-to-leni…
Thousands of Ecuadorian protesters, many Indigenous, have seized the parliament building in the capital Quito, chanting “Get out Moreno!”

This is why the US-backed Moreno regime fled Quito and temporarily changed the capital to the financial hub Guayaquil orinocotribune.com/ecuadorians-ta…
Brazil's fascist government, the blood-soaked Colombian narco regime, and the other right-wing governments in the region joined Ecuador's extremely unpopular US-backed regime in blaming the massive anti-austerity protests on... Venezuela!

Beyond farcical
reuters.com/article/us-ecu…
Ecuadorians just held a protest inside the NYC headquarters of the International Monetary Fund, condemning right-wing puppet leader Moreno for trapping Ecuador with IMF odious debt and imposing suffocating austerity measures that will boost poverty
eldiariony.com/2019/10/09/pro…
Ecuadorians are circulating this meme of US-backed right-wing President Moreno jokingly being honored as "employee of the month" of the IMF
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