From Moon of Alabama blog:
Election day in Ecuador
Luisa Gonzalez is poised to win over narco pretty boy Daniel Noboa. Noboa is squirming: he ordered a state of emergency, banning groups from congregating while he stuffs the ballot boxes. The legislature is telling the people to ignore the “order”. We should know by tonight; I don’t know if the US Empire has withdrawn support. My guess is that they still back him.
The Grayzone has another stellar report with an interview of Andrés Durán, an Ecuadoran journalist who exposes Noboa’s drug empire along with a tutorial on how black market– illegal– commerce launders and infuses cash into nations’ economies along with the essential role laundered money plays in the international banking system which dovetails with the most nefarious underworld operators worldwide, including hubs in Kosovo and western/northwestern Mexico.
“In his “war on gangs,” President Noboa has carefully avoided the Sinaloa, CJNG, and Balkan cartels. Is it possible he cut some kind of backroom deal to keep drugs and cash moving while he crushes dissent?
The 2023 assassination of the anti-corruption crusader and presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio by the cartel known as Los Lobos, clearly demonstrated the price of defying the cartels. Ecuador is now ruled by a narco-political order where cash trumps justice, and austerity ensures the state will not fight back.
Cartels exploit decades of cuts, making Ecuador a laundering hub, its dollarized veins pumping narco wealth into a global system that desperately needs it.
Andrés Durán, an Ecuadorian reporter exiled after exposing Noboa’s links, uncovered a state complicit in its own undoing.”
Posted by: migueljose | Apr 13 2025 14:32 utc | 1
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