
Ecuador Rejects Return of U.S. Military Bases
Voters overwhelmingly dismissed the president’s proposals—including reforming the constitution, cutting lawmaker numbers, and ending public funding for political parties.

Voters overwhelmingly dismissed the president’s proposals—including reforming the constitution, cutting lawmaker numbers, and ending public funding for political parties.

The result has been celebrated as a defeat for the Left.

The assassinated journalist-turned-politician had charged Ecuador’s government with handing Spain’s Podemos €2.6M of embezzled funds.

The latest iteration of EU visa policy will make it possible for Ecuadorians to gain visa-free access to the Schengen countries, as Latin American leaders drove a hard bargain during this week’s CELAC summit in Brussels.

A former member of Ecuador’s National Assembly noted that “it seems to be an attack against the values of the great majority of Ecuadorians, and that the U.S. is practicing a ‘diplomacy of gender ideology.’”