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During his announcement on Saturday Vargas said, “I’m here in my capacity as the head of Ecuador’s Indigenous movement…Mr. Andrés, or President as they are already calling you, we’re all in agreement on this, your proposals have the full support of the Indigenous movement,” reported People’s Dispatch.
Thanking Vargas, Arauz said, “We are building national unity and putting Ecuador first. We must work towards the plurinational state, truth, justice and reparations.” (Ecuador’s constitution proclaims the country a plurinational state and recognizes fourteen Indigenous nations within Ecuador.)
In endorsing Arauz, Vargas broke with a decision CONAIE made at a recent meeting to advocate a null vote in the Presidential runoff, (Ecuadorian voters have the option to vote for none of the above.)

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The United States is an object lesson for China on what to avoid, not only in industrializing the economy, but in creating a picture of the economy as if everybody earns everything and there’s no exploitation, no unearned income, nobody makes money in their sleep and there’s no 1 percent…” 

ERIC ZUESSE—Adherents to the U.S. empire don’t get to see that type of reporting. The same billionaires — U.S. billionaires — who control America’s ‘news’-media and ‘defense’ contractors and politicians, control also America’s vassal nations indirectly; and if such international dictatorship exists, then can a given vassal nation actually be a democracy? Is this what the international corporations are bringing — a global dictatorship?

The World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusstrongly criticizedbig pharma for profiteering and vaccine inequalities. Adhanom charged that younger, healthier adults in wealthy countries were being prioritized for vaccination against COVID-19 before older people or health care workers in poorer countries and that markets were sought to maximize profitability.