Virgos Groove Posted September 2 Posted September 2 Quote Now, leaked private messages purportedly sent by Ecuadorian Attorney General Diana Salazar, and reviewed by Drop Site News and The Intercept Brasil, reveal why the U.S. invested so many resources to investigate the candidate's assassination: according to Salazar's purported messages, Villavicencio was a U.S. government informant. And Salazar, who was apparently in close contact with the U.S. ambassador, helped shape a public narrative that the leftist party was to blame for the killing—a maneuver that successfully kept the Correaistas from returning to power and dramatically accelerated the Ecuadorian state's staggering descent. Quote Now, the tranche of hundreds of private messages show Salazar may have revealed sensitive information from the investigations, lending credence to allegations by Correistas that she engaged in a pattern of politically motivated actions, including aggressively pursuing cases against left-wing politicians while simultaneously delaying cases against more pro-U.S. right-wingers. Quote Among the allegations emerging from the leaked messages: Salazar may have delayed an investigation into businessmen linked to former right-wing president Guillermo Lasso to harm left-wing candidates during the 2023 snap elections. Salazar admitted the U.S. government did not want Correa's Movimiento Revolución Ciudadana, or Citizen Revolution Movement party (RC, by its acronym in Spanish) to win the 2023 elections. "They want RC's head," "Seño" wrote. Salazar warned Aleaga of a looming investigation into his alleged corruption, and encouraged him to flee Ecuador prior to a warrant for his arrest. Salazar claimed that assassinated presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was a U.S. government informant before encouraging Aleaga to become a cooperating witness for U.S. prosecutors. According to the messages, for months, Salazar knew that a criminal group was responsible for the Villavicencio murder. Despite knowing this, Salazar's office ran with the theory that the murder was orchestrated by Rafael Correa and his allies, allowing accusations against Correa to circulate, potentially playing a deciding role in the tight 2023 snap elections. Salazar said she suspected the FBI deleted sensitive information from Villavicencio's phone, during their investigation into the murder, before providing the contents to Salazar's office, which "Seño" referred to as "procedural fraud." Salazar may be using her office to punish a prominent former judge who acted against U.S. government law enforcement interests. Quote In recent years, questionable prosecutions targeting left-wing politicians have become a pattern across Latin America, following a playbook created and supported by the U.S. government. [...] The Salazar revelations also echo one of the most egregious examples of U.S.-backed prosecutorial misconduct in the region: explosive reporting published by The Intercept Brasil in 2019 based on another trove of leaked messages, which revealed serious ethical violations by a Brazilian judge and prosecutors, who colluded with each other to pursue political attacks against Lula da Silva in an effort to prevent his return to the presidency in 2018. The judge, Sergio Moro, hailed by the U.S. as an anti-corruption champion, has since fallen into disgrace after evidence of his bias eventually led the Supreme Court to throw out his judgment that landed Lula in prison. Quote Despite the purported weak evidence in the case, Correa himself was found guilty of "psychic influence" over public officials, inducing them to engage in bribery. He was sentenced to eight years in prison in absentia for that witchcraft, and was banned from participating in national politics for the duration of his sentence. He was granted asylum in Belgium, and due to the political nature of the case, Interpol has refused to issue a red alert for Correa's arrest. He appealed the guilty verdict, and although it was expected to be a lengthy process, the entire appeal process took only 17 days, with the judges—who had been appointed by Moreno—upholding the verdict. The Intercept Brasil The empire never sleeps. 1
Princess Aurora Posted September 3 Posted September 3 The US influencing other countries, especially in South America?
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