Solidarity to the people of Ecuador
“A resounding victory for Luisa González, if the election is free and fair enough for this to happen, will demonstrate that the Ecuadorian electoral masses have had enough of imperialist super exploitation“.
So ended our last article of early March 2025 covering the first round of the Ecuadorian election that saw 15 candidates reduced to just two, neoliberal Daniel Noboa and defender of the people, Luisa González.
On Sunday April 13, the runoff round of voting ensued resulting in Ecuador’s market-friendly President Daniel Noboa seeing off rival Luisa González with 55.8 per cent of the vote to González’s 44.4 per cent, with 90 per cent of the vote counted.
Noboa’s win gives him a four-year mandate to continue his pretence of ‘war’ on criminal drug gangs, a pretext for imposing martial law, militarising Ecuador’s streets and constructing new maximum-security prisons, undoubtedly, to house vocal opponents of which there is sure to be many. For in the wise words of Mao Zedong, “The masses in a backward country are often deceived by reactionaries, and at certain times and in certain places they may even support reactionaries. But reaction is always short-lived.”
The Ecuadorian onslaught
Following his win and speaking at his estate on the country’s Pacific coast, Noboa said, “Ecuador is changing. That path will mean our children will live better lives than we did.”
Oh the irony and dishonesty of his statement! Speaking from his estate, this son of a billionaire banana magnate pontificates whilst 27% of Ecuadorians and 34% of its youth live in poverty. Foreign armies are not the solution to Ecuador’s drug and gang issues: an end to the impoverishment that makes young men susceptible to gang recruitment is. The people of Ecuador should brace themselves for the onslaught about to be unleashed, for when Noboa refers to ‘our children, he is speaking to his own class.
Noboa recently told the BBC he wanted foreign armies from places such as the US and Europe to join his fight against gangs in the country. A euphemistic invitation for Western imperial rape, rampage and pillage of the Ecuadorian people’s resources, the mandate dictated by his elite US backers.
Noboa aims to change the constitution to allow foreign military bases in the country again thus fulfilling a US strategic objective to revive its Munroe doctrine and reinvigorate its imperial dominance over Latin America and in particular, to bring down socialist and sovereign states resisting US control including Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba.
Controversial official results
Following the election outcome, Luisa González refused to recognise the result announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE) suggesting that electoral fraud occurred in the vote tally to favour Noboa against the will of the people and that democracy had been trampled.
Analysts have also questioned the veracity of the numbers, given that González, who received almost 44% of the votes in the first round, was able to create alliances with political forces from the left and the centre of the Ecuadorian political spectrum in the weeks leading up to the election, while Noboa was entangled in multiple scandals highlighted by González during their election debates and throughout the campaign. Even 11 opinion polls—including those commissioned by the government itself—projected a González victory in advance of the election.
González condemned Noboa’s declaration of a state of emergency in seven provinces just the day before the election and has demanded that ballot boxes be reopened and votes recounted calling the election … “the most massive electoral fraud in Ecuador’s history,” and suggesting, “the fight continues.” At the time of writing, there is no further update on whether a recount will be undertaken.
Now, we appreciate that it’s almost customary for losing candidates to cry corruption, but we must be wary of rebuffing claims out of hand. It is important we assess each situation independently to determine the veracity of such claims, after all, we are aware that it exists and the more there is to lose, the higher the likelihood of corruption.
Unlike the BBC and other biased Western media that fail to provide anything more than scant, superficial coverage, independent journalists from the Grayzone present the outcome of an investigative report by journalist Andres Duran who has placed Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa in the middle of systematic corruption that aligns state collusion with drug cartels. It is available on YouTube and is worth a watch and will support Luisa González’s contention of corruption and illustrate how she is fighting more than her single opponent.
Awaken the working class and set ye free
In 1871 Karl Marx commented, “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
In 2025 the people of Ecuador either voted for, or have had imposed upon them through corruptive means, the most oppressive representatives of the bourgeoise elite who now have a four-year mandate to inflict excessive pain and extract excessive gain. The people will be pushed to the brink.
We send our solidarity to the great people of Ecuador and encourage them to fight against their oppressive forces for in the words of our late and great communist leader and mentor,: “The working class does not advance an inch towards its emancipation through the parliamentary swindle. On the contrary, it finds itself more enslaved, for now the chains are hidden under the illusion of democracy.”
— Harpal Brar, Social Democracy: the enemy within (2009)