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Wall Street Journal – Ecuador Opposition Gains in Vote, Polls Show

This country’s two most populous cities, Quito and Guayaquil, were set to elect opposition mayors on Sunday in votes that President Rafael Correa called a setback for his Alianza Pais party.

Exit polls, which predicted the result, also showed that members of the ruling party were the likely winners in most other elections for local government officials.

Exit surveys from two pollsters, Cedatos-Gallup International and Market, showed Mauricio Rodas, a former presidential candidate running for the opposition Suma party, would be elected as mayor of Quito, the country’s capital. Mr. Rodas was running against Quito’s current mayor, Augusto Barrera, who is a member of the Alianza Pais party.

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Members of indigenous communities in the Amazon in Ecuador would like to know: What happened to the more than $20M reportedly raised on their behalf by now-disbarred NY lawyer Steven Donziger? #FollowtheMoney
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#Factsmatter: An international arbitration panel found ‘no cogent evidence’ supporting #Ecuador’s claim that #Texaco failed to comply with terms of remediation in #Amazon. https://t.co/7TqQ6sJhik
The @WSJ sums this case up nicely, “[Steven Donziger] and his team fabricated evidence, promised $500,000 to an #Ecuadorean judge to rule in their favor, ghostwrote much of the final verdict and took other actions that ‘perverted’ the course of #justice. Mr. Donziger disputes the… https://t.co/soQ1qreULA
Shameless. Disbarred and convicted of criminal contempt of court for bribing an Ecuadorian judge in an attempted extortion scheme, @SDonziger is nonetheless accepting invitations to speak at #climate rallies. Read more about this adjudicated racketeer: https://t.co/5eac0lRmN7

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