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The US vs Social Democracy in Ecuador w/ Ryan Grim and Jose Olivares | American Prestige

Sep 17, 2024
46:46

On this episode of American Prestige, Ryan Grim, co-founder of Drop Site Newsand investigative journalist José Olivares join the show to talk about their recent piece for Drop Site revealing how Ecuador’s US-linked attorney general is using her office to attack the country’s left. The group gives the background of Rafael Correa and his left-wing “Correísmo” movement, how Correa and his successors became targets of “anti-corruption” Attorney General Diana Salazar, leaked messages of Salazar’s obtained by Drop Site leading to explosive allegations, the United States' potential links with assassinated presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, and why the US remains interested in domestic Ecuadorian politics.



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