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Ecuador’s President Turns On His Anti-American Mentor – The Wall Street Journal

When Lenín Moreno was elected president last year, he was pegged as a stand-in for his powerful predecessor, destined to play a placeholder role much like Dmitry Medvedev’s between terms of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Read more>>

When Lenín Moreno was elected president last year, he was pegged as a stand-in for his powerful predecessor, destined to play a placeholder role much like Dmitry Medvedev’s between terms of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

But Mr. Moreno has blazed a very different path. Setting off a bitter power struggle, he has broken with former President Rafael Correa, an anti-American leftist who guided this small country into alliances with Cuba and Venezuela and is known world-wide for letting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange take refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.

Mr. Moreno, who served for six years as Mr. Correa’s vice president, now accuses his old boss of concealing the weak state of Ecuador’s oil-dependent economy, ignoring government corruption, and turning into an authoritarian during his three terms in office. Mr. Moreno is improving relations with Washington and even talking about negotiating a trade agreement with the U.S.

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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
Sworn testimony: While Texaco met its environmental obligations in the Amazon, #Ecuador’s national oil company did “absolutely nothing” to address its own remediation in the area. #FactsMatter:
https://t.co/7TqQ6sJhik
DENIED: @SCOTUS rejects hearing case of Steven Donziger, who bribed Ecuadorian judge in failed effort to bilk Chevron for billions of dollars. https://t.co/zT0dlozk5R

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