Corruption exposed: US meddled in Ecuador’s election, using Julian Assange as bargaining chip (Multipolarista)
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A former minister of Ecuador testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement, backing a millionaire banker for president in exchange for giving up journalist Julian Assange, who had asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy.
by Ben Norton
Ecuador’s former energy minister testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement of ex President Rafael Correa.
He said that US “federal agents” pledged to help “influence” the 2017 presidential elections and support the candidacy of conservative millionaire banker Guillermo Lasso in exchange for the promise to turn over journalist Julian Assange, who had been given asylum by Correa and was stuck living for years in Ecuador’s embassy in London.
The former energy minister, Carlos Pareja Yannuzzelli, had fled a corruption investigation in Ecuador and was living as a fugitive from justice in the United States in late 2016 when he was offered large sums of money and US government protection in return for reading a carefully prepared “script” that made false accusations of corruption against Correa and his Vice President Jorge Glas, who was later imprisoned on highly dubious charges.
Pareja testified that the federal agents also coerced him into making false accusations against a US citizen, so they could justify their involvement in the Ecuadorian case. This led to the US citizen being arrested and imprisoned for three-and-a-half years.
The Monroe Doctrine is alive and well in South America. The U.S. does everything in its power to anything remotely to the left of J. Egar Hoover buried and supports authoritarian, especially ones who can be corrupted with money in charge. The last time anybody in the U.S. went to jail over these events was in the Reagan Administration. Of course, anybody who was in jail and/or charge with corruption were let off under dubious technicalities.
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Almost two years ago, Ben Norton left the GrayZone for reasons not revealed. It may have been over the reporting of COVID-19 by the GrayZone. Neither Ben Norton nor Max Blumenthal have talked about it. I do believe they are still friends.
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