Ecuador

Assange May Finally Leave Ecuadorian Embassy In London As Health Worsens

August 3, 2018 Staff, Rt.com Resist! Ecuador, health, Julian Assange, London

Julian Assange, who has spent more than 2,230 days in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, is expected to leave the building soon with his health deteriorating, sources say. This latest information about the WikiLeaks founder, who was already expected to leave the embassy “in the coming weeks,” was broken Wednesday by Bloomberg which cited “two people with knowledge of the matter.” The news agency reported that the whistleblower’s health “has declined recently.” The news comes days after Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno announced that Assange must "eventually" leave the embassy. “Yes, indeed yes, but his departure should come about through dialogue,” the Ecuadorian president said in answer to a reporter’s question on whether he will eventually have to leave. “For a person to stay confined like that for so long is tantamount to a human rights violation,” Moreno said, stressing that Ecuador wants to make sure that nothing “poses a danger” to the whistleblower's life.

Breaking: Possible Handover Of Assange To UK May Be Imminent

July 21, 2018 Elizabeth Vos, Disobedient Media. Resist! Ecuador, Julian Assange, Wikileaks

What happens in a world without Julian Assange? It seems we may be in the unthinkable position of facing such a reality, after WikiLeaks Tweeted regarding the recent statement of Margarita Simonyan, RT’s Editor-in-chief. Her message read (In English): “My sources tell me that Julian Assange will be handed over to the UK in the next weeks or days. Like never before I wish that my sources are wrong’.’ An exceptionally brief article published by Russian Insider documented Simonyan’s foreboding Tweet, indicating that her statement seemed especially serious in light of the quality of her sources.

Ecuador To Hand Over Assange To UK ‘In Coming Weeks Or Days’

July 21, 2018 Staff, Rt.com Educate! Ecuador, Julian Assange, Repression, United Kingdom (UK)

Sir Alan Duncan, the Foreign Office minister, is said to be spearheading the diplomatic effort. Sources close to Assange said he himself was not aware of the talks but believed that America was putting “significant pressure” on Ecuador, including threatening to block a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if he continues to stay at the embassy. The Times report comes just weeks before a visit to the UK by the newly-elected Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno, who has labeled Assange a “hacker”, an “inherited problem” and a “stone in the shoe.” There have been other worrying signs indicating Assange is steadily becoming a troublemaker for Ecuador. In late March this year, the Ecuadorian government has suspended Assange’s communication privileges with the outside world, cutting off his Internet connection at the embassy.

Ecuador Bows To US And IMF, Entering New Neoliberal Era

July 18, 2018 By Elliott Gabriel, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Ecuador, IMF, Latin America, Neoliberalism, US Imperialism

QUITO, ECUADOR – Ecuador’s passionate re-embrace of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) offers one of the clearest and most dramatic signs that the country’s leadership is dead-set on shedding any vestiges of the “post-neoliberal” era it was said to have entered a decade ago during former President Rafael Correa’s Citizens’ Revolution. The warmth displayed by authorities over the past month to visiting U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and a team from the IMF, respectively, further proves that Ecuador is melting back into the arms of international financial interests. Yet, despite authorities’ almost apologetic attitude toward foreign capital over the spats and breakups of the past, the people of Ecuador appear destined to suffer further abuse at the hands of the domestic and transnational capitalist interests that inflicted such grievous harm on it in the past.

British And Ecuadorian Authorities In Talks To Evict Julian Assange From London Embassy

July 17, 2018 Oscar Grenfell, Wsws.org Resist! Ecuador, Julian Assange, Repression, United Kingdom (UK)

The London-based Times newspaper reported yesterday that the British and Ecuadorian governments have been holding secret discussions on plans to evict WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange from Ecuador’s London embassy, where he sought political asylum six years ago. The article said the talks are “an attempt to remove Assange” from the embassy and are being conducted at the highest levels of government, with British Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan personally involved. The report is the latest public indication of a conspiracy, involving the British, US and Ecuadorian governments, to terminate Assange’s political asylum, in violation of international law, and force him into UK custody. The major powers are determined to prosecute the WikiLeaks editor for his organisation’s role in exposing US-led war crimes and diplomatic intrigues around the world.

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court Rules Against Chevron, In Favor Of Indigenous Communities

July 12, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Chevron, Courts, Ecuador, Indigenous Peoples

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court rejected Chevron’s request to revise a national court ruling that sentenced it to pay US$9.5 billion in environmental and social reparations to the communities affected during its operations in the Ecuadorean Amazon, between 1964 and 1992. “Historic day. After over 25 years, the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of those affected by Texaco. Congratulations to our sisters and brothers at @Chevron_Toxico. Without a doubt you are an example of dignity and perseverance. Let’s go for more! #TexacoGuilty,” the Center for Economic and Social Rights tweeted Tuesday night. In the resolution published Tuesday, the court justified its decision arguing “there is no violation of constitutional rights.” Chevron responded saying the court’s ruling is “consistent with the pattern of denial of justice, fraud, and corruption against the firm in Ecuador.”

Ecuador: Rafael Correa Supporters March To Protest Detention

July 6, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Ecuador, Electoral Politics, political prisoners

Thousands of people marched through Quito on Thursday in support of former President Rafael Correa, who has been accused of involvement in a failed kidnapping. Thousands of Rafael Correa supporters marched through one of Quito's main arteries on Thursday in defense of Ecuador's former president, accused of orchestrating a failed kidnapping attempt in 2012 – a charge he vehemently denies. Carrying giant 'No, Neoliberalism' signs and shouting "A united community will never be beaten," demonstrators marched along Quito's 10 de Agosto Avenue towards the Plaza Grande, outside President Lenin Moreno's executive offices, but were blocked by police and military forces.

‘They Want Me Dead’: Rafael Correa Defies Arrest Order & Talks ‘Lawfare’ In Emotional RT Interview

July 5, 2018 Staff, Rt.com Educate! Ecuador, Electoral Politics, political prisoners

Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa has defied an arrest order, claiming the new government is waging “lawfare” to deprive him of a political future – and even life, in an exclusive RT interview. Judge Daniella Camacho ordered the arrest of three-term President Rafael Correa on Tuesday over his alleged involvement in the 2012 abduction of a political opponent and requested that Interpol apprehend him for extradition. Correa, who now lives in Belgium, called the allegations “tremendously ridiculous” and dismissed Ecuador’s pressure on him in an interview with RT.

Ecuador Hints It May Hand Over Julian Assange To Britain And The US

May 13, 2018 James Cogan, WSWS Educate! Ecuador, Julian Assange, Wikileaks

Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador’s foreign minister suggest that her government may be preparing to renege on the political asylum it granted to the WikiLeaks editor in 2012 and hand him over to British and then American authorities. On March 28, under immense pressure from the governments in the US, Britain and other powers, Ecuador imposed a complete ban on Assange having any Internet or phone contact with the outside world, and blocked his friends and supporters from physically visiting him. For 45 days, he has not been heard from. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa stated in a Spanish-language interview on Wednesday that her government and Britain “have the intention and the interest that this be resolved.” Moves were underway, she said, to reach a “definite agreement” on Assange.

How Shoddy Reporting And Anti-Russian Propaganda Coerced Ecuador To Silence Julian Assange

April 23, 2018 M.C. McGrath and Glen Greenwald, Theintercept.com Educate! Ecuador, Journalism, Julian Assange, Media, Propaganda

JULIAN ASSANGE HAS been barred from communicating with the outside world for more than three weeks. On March 27, the government of Ecuador blocked Assange’s internet access and barred him from receiving visitors other than his lawyers. Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, when Ecuador granted him asylum due to fears that his extradition to Sweden as part of a sexual assault investigation would result in his being sent to the U.S. for prosecution for his work with WikiLeaks. In January of this year, Assange formally became a citizen of Ecuador. As a result of Ecuador’s recent actions, Assange — long a prolific commentator on political debates around the world — has been silenced for more than three weeks, by a country that originally granted him political asylum and of which he is now a citizen.

The Isolation Of Julian Assange Must Stop

April 5, 2018 By Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, John Pilger, Et Al, Counterpunch.org Resist! Ecuador, Freedom of Speech, Julian Assange

If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now. Citing his critical tweets about the recent detention of Catalan president Carles Puidgemont in Germany, and following pressure from the US, Spanish and UK governments, the Ecuadorian government has installed an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the outside world via the internet and phone. As if ensuring his total isolation, the Ecuadorian government is also refusing to allow him to receive visitors. Despite two UN rulings describing his detention as unlawful and mandating his immediate release, Assange has been effectively imprisoned since he was first placed in isolation in Wandsworth prison in London in December 2010. He has never been charged with a crime.

Intellectuals Demand Internet Access For Julian Assange

April 1, 2018 TeleSurTV. Resist! Ecuador, Internet, Julian Assange, Wikileaks

A group of prominent intellectuals, social activists and artists have signed an open letter demanding Ecuador's government restore WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet and phone access, allow him visits and respect his right to freedom of expression. "If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now," the letter reads.

Precarious Communications: Julian Assange, Internet Access And Ecuador

March 31, 2018 Binoy Kampmark, Countercurrents.org Educate! Ecuador, Internet, Julian Assange

Being a netizen, to use that popular term of sociological derivation, can be a difficult business. It presumes digital engagement, often of the sharper sort. To become a fully-fledged member of such citizenry, however, presumes access, a degree of Internet speed and appropriate platforms. Absent those, then different forms of activism must be sought. Governments and authorities the world over have come to appreciate that either the activity itself is controlled (limiting internet access, for one), or the content made available on the Internet (the Great Firewall of China). The resonant cliché there is that the one who controls the narrative controls history, or can, at the very least, blind it. Out of such tensions and tussles comes Julian Assange, a member of that unique breed of cyber insurrectionists, ducking and weaving through the information channels with varying degrees of success.

Ecuador Suspends Assange’s Communication Access At UK Embassy

March 29, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Educate! Ecuador, Julian Assange, United Kingdom (UK), Wikileaks

The WikiLeaks founder had been warned by the Ecuadorean government to avoid commenting on other countries affairs. The Ecuadorean government Wednesday restricted access to communications of the journalist and founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, who has been in Ecuador’s embassy in the U.K. since 2012, for violating an agreement in which he had pledged not to comment on the affairs of other countries. "The government of Ecuador suspended the systems that allow Julian Assange to communicate with the outside world from the Ecuadorian embassy in London," the Secretary of Communication said Wednesday in a press release, in which he affirms that the decision began to be applied a day earlier.

Indigenous Women Unite To Defend The Amazon, Mother Earth And Climate Justice

March 20, 2018 By Leila Salazar-Lopez, Amazonwatch.org Resist! Amazon, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Ecuador, Indigenous Women

It was the first time ever that indigenous Amazonian women from seven nationalities, including the Kichwa, Sápara, Shiwiar, Shuar, Achuar, Andoa, and Waorani, joined forces and marched together in defense of their rights, rainforests and future generations. They came from remote rainforest communities, local towns and provinces by foot, canoe, bus and plane to denounce a newly signed oil contract between the Ecuadorian government and Chinese oil corporation Andes Petroleum for blocks 79 and 83, which includes parts of the indigenous territories of the Sápara, Shiwiar and the Kichwa of Sarayaku, Pacayaku, Teresamama along the Bobonaza and Curaray River Basins. Contrary to Ecuadorian and international laws, they were not consulted and did not give their consent for any oil operations on their territories and have vowed to defend their rainforest homes and cultures.

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