Disinfo: US replaced Ecuador President, Rafael Correa, with Lenin Moreno, Washington’s man

Summary

In 2017 the US replaced the president of Ecuador Rafael Correa with Washington-supported Lenin Moreno. Subsequently, Ecuador’s new president revoked the asylum that had been granted to Julian Assange.

Disproof

Recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative about US-sponsored regime change in Latin America.

There is no evidence that in 2017 the United States replaced Ecuador's President Rafael Correa with Lenìn Moreno. According to the author, this regime change, allegedly conducted by the US, was aimed to revoke the political asylum that had been granted by Ecuador to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador’s embassy in London.

Former president Rafael Correa did not stand for re-election in 2017 due to the constitutional limit of two terms. The presidency went to leftist candidate Lenìn Moreno, formerly part of the Correa government as vice president, who won the election with 51.15% of the vote in the runoff against conservative candidate Guillermo Lasso, who later became president in the 2021 elections.

International observers commented that the elections were fair.

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  • Reported in: Issue 255
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 16/08/2021
  • Article language(s) English, Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Ecuador, US
  • Keywords: Julian Assange, Elections, Puppets
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