Ecuador and Julian Assange in great danger as traitor Moreno is about to throw them into the hands of the US empire
Ecuador’s
president, Lenín Moreno, shook up his cabinet and appointed six new
ministers this week. The move appears to confirm what many of his
critics on the Left have long suspected, which is that Moreno is
moving the country increasingly towards the Right. That is, they say
he is reversing the policies under the previous government, Rafael
Correa, who pursued a fairly progressive agenda, particularly in
foreign and economic affairs. For example, President Moreno’s new
Minister of the Economy, Richard Martinez, comes directly from the
country’s business class, where he worked as a consultant for the
Chamber of Industry and Production, and he also was president of
Ecuador’s Business Committee, which is the country’s main
business association.
Greg
Wilpert of the Real
News spoke with Guillaume Long, former Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Ecuador under former President Rafael Correa,
about the rapid turn of the new Ecuadorian administration towards
neoliberal policies, under Lenín Moreno.
Long
gave some impressive details about Moreno's actions so far, proving
that he acted like a US agent. His mission is to destroy Correa's
legacy and throw Ecuador into the hands of the US empire by
implementing destructive neoliberalism. This
is obviously
part of an ongoing operation through which the
US imperialist hawks seek to wipe out the last Leftist governments in
Latin America.
Moreno's
behavior made Long finally resign from his position.
As Long
said:
I felt
Moreno was moving more and more towards the Right, sort of had a
creeping conservative agenda that was becoming more and more
difficult to reconcile with.
What I
felt Moreno was doing, was kind of reintroducing the US in kind of
security and geopolitics and moving away from what we had espoused
during the Citizens’ Revolution, which was more kind of sovereign,
non-aligned foreign policy based on Latin American integration and
sort of an intelligence incursion in a multipolar world. And not just
this kind of return within the US kind of imperial fold.
So, I
felt that it wasn’t possible to be Moreno’s personal
representative in the UN anymore. There were a number of issues that
I disagreed with.
Moreno,
also, by January, had made it pretty clear that he wanted to
obliterate the legacy of his predecessor, Rafael Correa. I think
Moreno was elected in 2017 basically on a platform promising the
continuation of the Citizens’ Revolution, of Rafael Correa’s
political process. And so, I felt that there was a betrayal there. He
was obliterating it rhetorically. He was blaming everything on his
predecessor. But he was also organizing a referendum, which actually
occurred in February, attempting to bury the legacy of Correa and to
prevent Rafael Correa from ever coming back in Ecuador in politics.
One of the questions of the referendum was aimed at barring any type
of reelection.
The
situation has got significantly worse. There’s an even greater
departure from the legacy ten years of the Citizens’ Revolution of
Rafael Correa’s government. We’ve really gone Right-wing now.
The new
Minister of Economy and Finance, was actively involved in the
campaign of Moreno’s rival in the 2017 elections that Moreno won.
Moreno was elected against Guillermo Lasso - very, very neoliberal.
So, Moreno wasn’t the perfect candidate, but facing the threat of a
Lasso government we were all very anxious for his victory.
What
Moreno did over the next few months is, little by little, have people
from the Lasso camp coming to his government. He said this was all
about ‘dialogue’ and ‘being very inclusive.’ Being inclusive
and dialogue is a good thing, but he actually said at one point, in a
conversation with bankers, that he was very grateful for them. Those
are the words he employed. He was very grateful for them not having
voted for him and that he was very angry. He had actually used the
word hatred, ‘I have a lot of hatred for the people who voted for
me.’
It’s
taken him a year to get where he wanted to get to, which is to bring
the neoliberals on board to run the country. And this new Minister of
Economy and Finance, is a complete neoliberal, he is not a moderate
neoliberal. He’s a very radical neoliberal who believes in the
whole neoliberal recipe, which is the direct opposite of what we did
for ten years when we had a much more heterodox, a much more sort of
anti-austerity program, which allowed for growth, redistribution, for
the reduction of poverty, of inequality, and was very successful. I
think Ecuador was one of the most successful economic models in the
“pink tide” for Latin America for a long time.
Moreno’s
actions also explain why Ecuador actually starts to turn against
Julian Assange. From the impressive details given, it is obvious that
Moreno acts like a puppet of Washington who was seeking to sabotage
Ecuador's course towards Left under Rafael Correa. The whole story
and recent developments show that the ringer tightens around Julian
Assange and that under the traitor Moreno, Ecuador methodically
pushes him too into the hands of the US empire.
Recall
that recently, Rafael Correa, in an
exclusive
interview with the Intercept,
denounced his country’s current government’s decision
for blocking Julian Assange from
receiving visitors in its Embassy in London as a form of “torture”
and a violation of Ecuador’s duties to protect Assange’s safety
and well-being. Correa said this took place in the context of Ecuador
no longer maintaining “normal
sovereign relations with the American government — just
submission.”
Also,
Correa recently
told journalists in Madrid that Assange’s “days
were numbered” because Moreno, his former protégé, would
“throw him out of the embassy at the first pressure from the
United States.”
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