Lenin Moreno
Lenin Moreno came from a left-wing middle class mestizo family. His father, who became a senator, admired Vladimir Lenin and named his son after him. Lenin studied public administration and psychology. In 1998, he was shot in a robbery attempt and lost the ability to walk. He has since used a wheel chair.
Moreno was Correa's vice-president in his first term (2007-13). On October 1, 2016, Correa introduced his candidacy for the party's 2017 presidency. Lenà n Moreno - Wikipedia
Moreno took first place on the February 19, 2017 election with 39.3% of the vote. He was short by less than one percentage point of outright victory, as Ecuador requires in its two-round electoral system. In the April 2017 runoff, he defeated banker Guillermo Lasso with 51.16% of the vote.
Within months of winning the election, Moreno started moving away from his election platform, thus igniting a feud with ex-president Rafael Correa. Moreno reversed several key pieces of legislation passed by the Correa administration that targeted wealthy individuals and banks. He allowed national and international corporations greater profits with less taxes, and let them mine in areas protected by indigenous people's ecological base culture.
In February 2019, Moreno announced that he had obtained a loan of more than $10 billion from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Lenà n Moreno - Wikipedia
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team investigated a meeting between former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and President Moreno in Quito shortly after he became president. Moreno talked with Manafort about removing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and his extradition to the United States. Correa had granted Assange citizenship and political asylum in 2012.
June 2018, Moreno met with Vice President Mike Pence to consolidate "security" measures: buying weapons, radar sets, six helicopters, as well as sharing military training and intelligence. They also spoke about Julian Assange, and in August, Moreno withdrew Ecuador from ALBA.
In January 2019, Moreno supported Venezuelan opposition leader, the self-declared president Juan Gauidà ³. Soon thereafter, IMF approved a $4.2bn loan for Ecuador. Then the World Bank approved the Social Safety Net Project for Ecuador.
April 11, 2019, Moreno revoked Assange's citizenship and asylum, allowing British police to drag him in the embassy. Cops threw him in a maximum lock-down prison where he remains. They left his possessions, Wikileaks and legal his documents, which were turned over to U.S. intelligence.
Moreno moved Ecuador's diplomatic position even closer to U.S. dominance by allowing it to use a military airstrip on the Gala'pagos Islands. Charles Darwin had studied Gala'pagos ecosystem, which became an essential part of his Theory of Evolution. Moreno's government then faced protests from environmentalists after he permitted the U.S. military to use an airbase on Gala'pagos Islands.
October 2, 2019, Moreno abolished fuel subsidies, sparking the greatest and longest protests in his term. It lost control of the capitol and moved from Quito to Guayaquil. Seven people were killed, and 2,100 arrested. Resistance forced Moreno to restore the subsidies.
Moreno enjoyed a popularity rating as high as 77% shortly after his election in 2017. After the October 2019 Ecuadorian protests, Moreno reached an all-time low approval rate of 7%. He decided not to run again.
Lenin Moreno with Trump, VP Pence, Secretary of State Pompeo as 2021 election campaign unfolds in Ecuador. Creative Commons photo.
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