Turmoil in Ecuador

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jfzed

"STUDENTS WARN THAT PROTESTS ARE JUST THE BEGINNING

Hatari Ulcuango, president of the Catholic University Student Federation, warns that this Saturday's mobilizations are merely the beginning. Faced with the health, economic, and energy crisis gripping #Ecuador, he maintains that marches are no longer enough and proposes calling for a national strike as the next form of protest.

🔴 STUDENTS WARN THAT THE PROTESTS ARE JUST THE BEGINNING

Hatari Ulcuango, president of the Student Federation of the Catholic University, warns that this Saturday's mobilizations are merely the beginning. In the face of the health, economic, and energy crisis


https://x.com/jfzed/status/2109305695782719750

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Eliana Correa
@ElianaCorreaRC
Translated from Spanish
Today the streets of various cities in the country filled with voice and dignity. The citizenry mobilized to demand what belongs to us: quality healthcare, an educational system that protects our children and youth from crime, and the unrestricted respect for the civil rights granted by the Constitution, for freedom of expression, and for the right to free protest.

Ecuadorians of all ages said ENOUGH! to insecurity, empty promises, and populist policies that do not solve the people's problems.

All my solidarity with those who suffered police repression and with the alternative media outlets that were attacked today. Their courage and their work represent a light of hope for all of Ecuador

Translated from Spanish
🔴#Attention | Hundreds of people gathered at the national mobilization called by the Autonomous Front of Organized Resistance (FARO). The gathering was titled “Battle of aura: Government vs People”. #LaRadioDeLasNoticias

https://x.com/ElianaCorreaRC/status/2109088843609616592

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Viviana Veloz

Translated from Spanish
INEPT AND USELESS! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? FOR SANTO DOMINGO TO BE CUT OFF FROM COMMUNICATION?

Yesterday the Las Mercedes – Los Bancos road collapsed at the Toachi stretch. Today it woke up DESTROYED. They're no longer potholes: they're CRATERS!

How long, Daniel Noboa?

You and your minister Luque showed up all loose-lipped to insult the opposition for demanding solutions months ago, promising everything under the sun. Lots of insults, lots of promises, and ZERO solutions.

El Niño is coming, and if you don't intervene NOW, Santo Domingo runs the risk of being cut off. At stake is the transportation, production, and livelihood of thousands of families.

INTERVENE ON THE ROAD NOW!

https://x.com/VivianaVelozEc/status/2109630311894028653

Teleamazonas Noticias

Translated from Spanish
#TAnews | Collapsed road: The heavy storm caused by the rains destroyed a section of the Las Mercedes–Los Bancos route in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, leaving vehicles stranded.

A report by
@karencaguano15
#NewsTeleamazonas

https://teleamazonas.com/actualidad/...omingo-130154/


https://x.com/TAnoticiasEc/status/2109617236118028679

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Teleamazonas Noticias

Translated from Spanish
#TAnews | A landslide in the El Madrigal sector affected mobility on the General Rumiñahui highway. Authorities are assessing the condition of the slope.

A report by
@GJaramilloTA

#TeleamazonasNews

https://teleamazonas.com/actualidad/...inahui-130152/

https://x.com/TAnoticiasEc/status/2109612938353127703

Teleamazonas Noticias

Translated from Spanish
#TAnews | National emergency due to winter! Heavy rains leave more than 17,000 people affected in the country. Esmeraldas, Guayas, Los Ríos, and Manabí are among the hardest-hit provinces.

#NoticiasTeleamazonas

https://teleamazonas.com/actualidad/...cional-130153/

https://x.com/TAnoticiasEc/status/2109615470580027405

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La Hora Ecuador

Translated from Spanish
⛈️ The rains in the Coast are affecting the supply of rice and sugar. In Quito, the quintal of rice rose from $48 to $60 and that of sugar, from $39 to $49, according to merchants 💵. We tell you

https://x.com/lahoraecuador/status/2109695233961181659

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Karol E. Noroña
@KarolNorona
Translated from Spanish
🔴 Update| The extent and amount of crude oil spilled yesterday into the Cupa River are still unknown. By the way, 11:30 —which I mentioned below— is the time of the preliminary Risks report, to which we had access, where it was alerted that there was a break in an SOTE pipeline.

What Petroecuador has specified is that since 08:30 today a group of technicians are in Quinindé and that contingency barriers have been deployed, among other tasks.

The issue is that for the communities this statement is insufficient. They have no access to water, their river is contaminated —it's not the first time—, and daily activities are deeply disrupted. The economy suffers a direct impact.

Translated from Spanish
🔴| Oil Spill in Quinindé, Esmeraldas:

At 11:30 a.m. this Monday, October 12, there was a new crude oil spill in the Quinindé canton, in Esmeraldas province, which reached the Cupa River, now contaminated. The Esmeraldas cantonal mayor's office suspended water intake and distribution at the San Mateo Plant. The Quinindé mayor's office, on the other hand, told the public that they should "preventively stock up on water." But several communities are alerting that there is no water left. They are outraged: they demand a comprehensive response, environmental intervention, safety, and the most basic thing, access to drinking water.

According to a preliminary report from the National Risk Management Service, the spill occurred due to the rupture of a pipeline in the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE).

Military personnel and staff from the state-owned company Petroecuador are in the area.

https://x.com/KarolNorona/status/2109787777017749919

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Elena Rodríguez Yánez

Translated from Spanish
Noboa promised there would be no blackouts, but we've been experiencing them for weeks now. And what happened last night and during the early hours of this morning is terrible—thousands of Ecuadorians reporting power outages across the entire country. Reality has once again proven Noboa wrong. The experts warned us: the reservoirs are at their limit, and the Government keeps playing Russian roulette with the electrical system. How much will it cost us to prop up an election promise? Stop being so irresponsible.

https://x.com/ElenaDeQuito/status/2110297652482965697

Elena Rodríguez Yánez

Translated from Spanish
The warning is extremely serious: Ecuador runs the risk of facing a collapse of its electrical system.

The former minister and expert in energy and water
@AlexisSanchezEC
explains what happened during the night and early morning in Ecuador and issues an alert that the Government cannot continue ignoring: if technical measures are not adopted immediately, including scheduled blackouts, the stability of the entire national electrical system is seriously endangered.
@teleSURtv

@radio_pichincha


https://x.com/ElenaDeQuito/status/2110336051025731947

Elena Rodríguez Yánez

Translated from Spanish
Seriously, this is a pathology. An entire country clamoring for light, for electricity, even if it's just for scheduled blackout times... and these people are still obsessed with Correísmo.

Harold Burbano

Translated from Spanish
That's right, President @DanielNoboaOk, we're going to cut off the petty cash to correísmo in Quito.

We Quiteños are clear that the money is for public works, for security, for social investment—not for sustaining a party's militants, and

https://x.com/ElenaDeQuito/status/2110392673404432851

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Ecuavisa Noticias

Translated from Spanish
#Most Read | https://ecuavisa.digital/4zSA2mD | 🪫 #PowerOutages affect several cities in Ecuador without official explanation. 📍 Quito, Guayaquil, Durán, Daule, Latacunga, Ambato, and cantons of Loja reported electrical interruptions between the night of Tuesday the 13th and the early morning of this Wednesday the 14th of October.

https://x.com/EcuavisaInforma/status...02684213686288

Ecuavisa Noticias

Translated from Spanish
🔵 #Televistazo 📌🗣️ Experts indicate that the current energy crisis is the result of the failure to comply with the master electricity plan, corruption, and the increase in national demand. The Cardenillo project, for example, was supposed to be ready this year, but its construction has been postponed until 2030.

@diegopuente1
with the report 🎙️

More information 📲

https://x.com/EcuavisaInforma/status...70660987150815

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Ecuador En Directo

Translated from Spanish
#ATTENTION
In the face of the unexpected power outages from the last few hours, which affected several sectors of the country, assembly member
@VivianaVelozEc
recalled that President
@DanielNoboaOk
promised to resolve the electricity crisis in 9 months and said there would be no more blackouts.

"Today the cuts are back, only now they're disguising them as 'maintenance.' They change the name, but the crisis is the same. Mazar on the brink. Industries forced to disconnect, halt production, and absorb losses," she emphasized.
https://x.com/EcEnDirecto/status/2110437305131442642

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Alexis Sánchez Miño

Translated from Spanish
🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ this collectible dummy says: … “what in a normal year we see 20… 25 per day, this year we're seeing 60..65 per day ?.. 😱😱
? What are we seeing per day ?… lightning bolts, loaves of bread, potatoes, rays or what ? 🤔🤔
This dimwit is so ignorant and limited that he doesn't even know what he's saying 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️…
! The rain that falls has units of measurement … He probably meant to say 20 or 25 millimeters ( mm) of rain !.. 😳
I'll explain it to the jackass who's governing (hopefully he gets it): one mm of rain equals one liter of rainwater that has fallen on a flat surface of one square meter...🤔..? got it dummy ?.. 🤔
Well … what to expect from asking for pears from the elm tree …🤔🤔

https://x.com/AlexisSanchezEC/status...27813635383469

Alexis Sánchez Miño

Translated from Spanish
Which idiot was it who, in the presidential debate, said that #Ecuador has no generation problems? ..😱..
Wasn't it the same moron who said that very day he'd have a solution to the energy problems in three months, and three years later, nothing? .. 🤦🏻‍♂️
Wasn't it the same jackass who, through his crony ministers, contracted 241 MW with PROGEN and ATM to be installed in 90 days (two years ago), and all we got was a colossal THEFT of over $170 million? .. 🤬

Yes... it's the same one who thinks Ecuadorians are idiots, morons, and jackasses, when not all of us are—just those who keep believing in this ignominious and repulsive tyrant


Translated from Spanish
🔵 #Televistazo ⚡🗣️ During the start of the electricity crisis, the country's thermoelectric power plant operated at full capacity and, until this morning, has been covering 27% of the national energy demand. At the governmental level, the Ministry of Energy holds Celec and@

https://x.com/AlexisSanchezEC/status...81848202486028

Alexis Sánchez Miño

Translated from Spanish
ENERGY CRISIS 2026
October 13 Report
🚩 The Mazar power plant stopped for the 2nd day🤔, and what will be achieved today will be a level of 2125.30 masl; that is, 30 centimeters higher than yesterday's level! Because the inflow is 30 m³/s 😱😱 (1/5 of what's needed). We're still 10.5 m from reaching the minimum operating level!🤔

🚩 What happens when the Mazar power plant stops its turbines to recover the reservoir level?..🤔🤔… because the entire Paute system depends on this reservoir! 😳. If Mazar stops, the Paute-Molino and Sopladora power plants don't receive that turbine-generated water, which are operating under CRITICAL conditions (the Amalusa reservoir has already reached its minimum rational operating level), and they could collapse at any moment if they keep operating with Mazar stopped! 🤔

🚩 Today's demand (until 20:00) was 4900 MW and the peak maximum demand exceeded 5200 MW, meaning there's no reduction in consumption as expected despite the industrial blackouts! 🤔

🚩 The dry season will extend for at least three more months, it's IMPOSSIBLE to recover the Mazar level, and what the government is doing is thrashing around like a drowning person. It would be more rational to start with scheduled cuts and not expose the national energy system to TOTAL COLLAPSE, which would be a national tragedy with colossal consequences!.. 😱😱

🚩 Free advice: If you're trying to hold off the crisis without scheduled blackouts for the entire population until the elections, I've got some terrible news for you. IT'S NOT POSSIBLE. Blackouts are INEVITABLE and UNDELAYABLE!..😳😳, if you don't do it, the alternative is the total collapse of the turbines due to cavitation, abrasion, and more fatal technical consequences from operating them at levels below the minimum operational ones!.. 😱😱

🚩 You've been warned 👁️👁️

https://x.com/AlexisSanchezEC/status...77892747379184

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Max Blumenthal

Oct 22
Miami-born billionaire and US puppet President Daniel Noboa has ordered the arrest of Luisa Gonzalez - the latest of his opponents to be locked behind bars

During the 2024 debates, Gonzalez demanded Noboa take a drug test - which he refused - and exposed his personal role in transforming Ecuador into a narco state

As Gonzalez explained to a nationally televised audience, European authorities routinely find tons of cocaine packed in Bonita Banana containers shipped from Ecuador.

Daniel Noboa has served as shipping director of Noboa Corporation. And as Gonzalez alleged, his political career has been financed with drug money.

Noboa appears to have stolen the last election with the support of Trump-Rubio, who rushed to recognize him as the winner despite clear irregularities in the vote.

Now, with Washington’s support, he’s moving to silence his most credible rivals. https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1...212222/video/1

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2113362922105954580

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Pamphlets

Oct 22
🚨🇪🇨 BREAKING — Ecuador has Fallen.

The Zionist Noboa Regime Just Jailed the Leader of the Opposition...

Luisa González was President Daniel Noboa's Top Rival in Controversial Elections in 2023 and 2025.

https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/2113311629396029807

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The Grayzone

Ecuador's US-born, Trump-allied President Daniel Noboa has imprisoned the mayor of Ecuador's second largest city, Guayaquil, presidential prospect Aquiles Álvarez, in a 4 AM raid on his family home

Just before his arrest, Alvarez announced his intention to present evidence of narco trafficking through Ecuador's ports under the watch of Noboa

The political prisoner's wife, Fiorella Icaza, tells The Grayzone about the "concentration camp"-like conditions under which Álvarez is held, and reveals that she too is being targeted as she runs for mayor to continue his work

Ecuador’s Miami-born billionaire President Daniel Noboa is not just operating as a US ally, but as one of the most aggressive enforcers of Donald Trump’s so-called Donroe Doctrine. His administration serves as a vehicle for projecting U.S. power across the entire region, while it pulverizes all opposition within the country through political repression and disproportionate force.

In his latest assault on the opposition, Noboa’s administration has detained his most recent presidential rival, Luisa González from the social democratic Citizen Revolution Movement. Noboa has had it out for Gonzalez ever since she humiliated him during their presidential debate by challenging him to take a drug test, which the president refused to do. She also outlined Noboa’s personal role in transforming Ecuador into a narco state. This October 22, she was detained on unfounded accusations of accepting money from drug traffickers to fund her presidential campaign. The arrest and prosecution marked yet another rushed case and raid targeting the leadership of her party, which was founded by former president Rafael Correa, who now lives in exile to avoid a similar fate.

In Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city and principal commercial port, Mayor Aquiles Álvarez was among Noboa’s most outspoken political opponents and was seen as the main presidential prospect for the Citizen Revolution Party. Early this year, Álvarez announced that he intended to present foreign embassies with documents revealing drug trafficking through Ecuador’s ports, and ties between the Noboa government and organized crime.

Watch The Grayzone's full interview with Fiorella Icaza, the wife of Álvarez, who is now continuing his work

https://x.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status...55923738890334