Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno is expected to announce a new economic plan which will include tax regulations and labor flexibilization, according to the country's Productive and Tax Council.
Moreno has until Wednesday to announce the economic reforms based on proposals he received from a group of businessmen in the country.
The main proposals include fewer taxes for companies and less restrictions on labor issues, such as work hours and social security for workers. Another proposal would eliminate taxes on large money transactions and taxes for imports which were created to protect local production in Ecuador. Meanwhile, Labor Ministry Raul Ledesma said about 15,000 job positions will be cut in the public sector.
The council discussed eliminating the law against land speculation but stated that will be presented in the upcoming plebiscite proposed by Moreno.
Vice President Jorge Glas used to preside over the body and claims that wealthy businesspeople sought to remove him from his position since he was an obstacle to promoting neoliberal measures that would affect the majority of people.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ecuadors-Moreno-to-Announce-Econo...
Moreno's Neoliberal Restoration Proceeds in Ecuador
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/13/morenos-neoliberal-restoration-p...
"Moreno's remarkably cynical Neoliberal Restoration..."
If he's gonna push for things like that, could he at least do the decent thing and change his first name to "Kissinger" or "Thatcher"?
Although little known yet in the West, he is already well liked by the 'progressive' right-left for his stepped up belligerence and persecution of Julian Assange.
"US media has a total blackout on Ecuador's popular uprising against neoliberal president Lenin Moreno. Follow for updates on the ground..."
https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1181558330847895553
"I made a thread about the traitor Lenin Moreno who sold out Julian Assange for a $4.2b IMF loan, fleeing the capital of Ecuador as Indigenous protesters rose up..."
https://twitter.com/jaraparilla/status/1181471539994120192
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/08/ecuador-moves-government-out-of-capital-as-violent-protests-rage
Inside Ecuador's Citizens' Revolution (and vid)
https://twitter.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/1358076084722556929
"Benjamin Norton traveled to Ecuador to report on the historic February 7 election, which pits a rich US-backed right-wing banker against a leftist economist who wants to advance the socialist citizens' revolution started by Rafael Correa."
Thx NDPP that was a good video. It looks like the left will win, the only question is whether or not there will be a run off vote and whether or not the US will interfere if they don't get the result they want in the first round.
It seems to be official the Neo-liberals have gone down in flaming defeat in Ecuador. The only question is whether the leftist party wings or the leftist indigenous party wins. It seems either way this election has been a win for the people. Moreno took a popular left of center coalition and handed to US capital and the people at the next election rejected this approach and want to return to the bosom of the Bolivarian revolution taking place in South America. Like in Bolivia and Venezuela when given the vote the people vote for themselves not the oligarchy.
This Telesur article explains the three contenders backgrounds and politics. They were right that these three were the only ones to have a chance of making it to the run-off. Although Correa did many good things in office Yaku Pérez and his political allies held protests against his and the subsequent sell-out Moreno government.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Meet-the-Main-Candidates-in-Ecuadors...
"If you want to know why the US is intervening in the Ecuadorian elections, it's to stop this from happening..."
https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1362196844290453510