#NewWorldReport: #Ecuador sees President Lasso tarted for removal. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
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🗓️ 16 March 2023
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#NewWorldReport: #Ecuador sees President Lasso tarted for removal. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/declassified-documents-do-not-mention-ecuadors-lasso-regulator-2023-03-15/
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| 0:35.4 | I'm John Bachelors with Professor Abenelis of the US Army Workhullets Strategic Studies Institute. |
| 0:40.6 | He is in Panama City, in Central America, and we look to Ecuador on the Pacific side of |
| 0:47.2 | the South American continent. |
| 0:49.0 | There's continuing trouble there for the President Lasso. |
| 0:53.3 | Keto, headlined Reuters, Ecuador's national assembly voted to declassified documents tied |
| 0:59.8 | to investigations in allegations of corruption at public companies in a bid to shore up impeachment |
| 1:06.4 | charges against President Lasso. |
| 1:09.4 | I follow this story carefully, Professor, because it has elements that are exactly the same |
| 1:15.7 | as in neighboring Peru. |
| 1:18.5 | I begin, however, with how is it that Lasso fell out of favor with its supporters? |
| 1:24.8 | Did he? |
| 1:25.8 | Because the word corruption, that seems to be common currency throughout Latin America. |
| 1:30.0 | There's nothing fresh there. |
| 1:31.7 | So, why is Lasso no longer desire? |
| 1:34.8 | Well, John, there have been corruption allegations against Lasso long before he became the President |
| 1:39.9 | and indeed also the involvement of one of his relatives, I believe, his nephew with a possible |
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