Desperate
to ingratiate his government with Washington and distract the public
from his mounting scandals, Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has
sacrificed Julian Assange – and his country’s independence
by
Denis Rogatyuk
Part
4 - “Who will trust in ECUADOR again?”
Moreno’s
decision to silence Julian Assange and expel him enabled the
president to gain the trust of the Trump administration while
distracting the Ecuadorian public and international media from his
mounting crises at home.
From
corrupt dealing in off-shore bank accounts, the fraudulent elections
of March 24th and his mishandling of the Ecuadorian economy, Moreno
is in a world of trouble.
This has
not escaped the notice of Correa, the former President of Ecuador who
first authorized Julian Assange’s asylum back in 2012. After having
his page blocked on Facebook, Correa stated that “In his hatred,
because Wikileaks published corruption of INA papers, Moreno wanted
to destroy Assange’s life. He probably did it, but he has also done
a huge damage to the country. Who will trust in ECUADOR again?”
Overall,
Ecuador has come to resemble the neoliberal regimes of the 1990s
across the continent, with IMF-sanctioned austerity, increasingly
unstable state institutions and an almost complete obedience to the
US foreign policy in the region becoming the new policy standard.
Handing
Assange over for possible extradition to the US was the inevitable
result of Moreno’s turn to the right, but it is hardly the end of
his sell out.
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Nearly a year ago, these predictions
unfortunately are now reality: https://t.co/gQonJV7uSC
—
failedevolution (@failedevolution) April
12, 2019
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