https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/7dd89d66-ec77-4398-8aa8-ac8ca3f1d5c9 Ben Norton discusses Ecuador's 2021 election results, and how the US government and intelligence-linked billionaire foundations spent decades funding and cultivating liberal environmental groups and rightist Indigenous leaders to divide the left and weaken the socialist Citizens' Revolution movement launched by former President Rafael Correa. 0:00 Context for Ecuador election 55:42 WikiLeaks cables: US embassy cultivated Indigenous opposition 1:11:58 USAID funds anti-Correa environmental groups *Read Ben's investigation "How the US gov’t cultivated environmental and Indigenous groups to defeat Ecuador’s leftist Correísta movement" here: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/04/ecuador-election-us-pachakutik-lasso-yaku State Department cables released by WikiLeaks show how the US embassy recruited members of the Indigenous confederation CONAIE and its political arm Pachakutik, which has been directly supported by US government soft-power weapons like the NDI. CIA cutouts USAID and the NED poured tens of millions of dollars into building a fake "left" opposition to Correísmo, using "anti-extractivism" as a cover. The result was Pachakutik/CONAIE and its coup-supporting neoliberal candidate Yaku Pérez got more than 1 million extra Ecuadorians to vote null in the April 2021 vote, compared to previous elections, thereby handing the victory to right-wing banker Guillermo Lasso. After left-wing candidate Andrés Arauz conceded losing by 400,000 votes, Pérez boasted of "burying Correísmo." The US-backed fake "left" had succeeded in defeating a real leftist movement. Norton documents how these tactics mirror US imperialist strategy targeting Bolivia, Nicaragua, Mexico, and more. -- Read more at The Grayzone, "How Ecuador’s US-backed, coup-supporting ‘ecosocialist’ candidate Yaku Pérez aids the right-wing": https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/06/yaku-perez-pachakutik-ecuador-us-coup *(Sorry for the very grainy image quality -- when they recorded the Zoom call they didn't record my individual video.) ||| Moderate Rebels ||| Please consider supporting us on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ModerateRebels Website: https://moderaterebels.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/moderate_rebels Facebook: https://facebook.com/moderaterebelsradio Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/moderaterebels Minds: https://minds.com/moderaterebels Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:34:34 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/7dd89d66-ec77-4398-8aa8-ac8ca3f1d5c9 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.