Three bullets to the head ended a presidential campaign, sending a South American nation and parts of Washington D.C. reeling. Fernando Villavicencio, a charismatic Ecuadorian politician, had been rising in the polls in the August 2023 snap elections by promising to take on the corrupting influence of violent, organized drug cartels. Less than two weeks before the election, as the candidate walked among a cheering crowd towards his car at a campaign event, an assassin shot him dead.

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.

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.

https://xcancel.com/DefMon3/status/1829269828076539981

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Russia often loses all contact with local residents forcibly taken by Kiev troops, the Foreign Ministry has said

Ukrainian troops occupying part of Russia’s Kursk Region have been abducting and sexually abusing local residents, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s special mission to investigate alleged Ukrainian war crimes, Rodion Miroshnik, has claimed.

In an interview with RIA Novosti on Thursday, Miroshnik confirmed numerous earlier reports alleging that Ukrainian forces – including foreign mercenaries – have engaged in numerous atrocities against the civilian population since the start of the large-scale incursion on August 6.

“We have evidence of sexual violence committed by both foreign mercenaries and Ukrainian radicals,” he stated, suggesting that the Ukrainian leadership had deployed “all of its scum” to Kursk Region in an apparent effort to get them out of the country and “dispose” of them. Other apparent crimes by Kiev’s forces include abductions, Miroshnik claimed. “We have data that Ukrainian militants are taking action to kidnap people. They are snatching civilians and taking them away to an unknown location. We often lose contact with them. Where are they taken? To Ukrainian territory, or to secret prisons?” he asked.

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https://archive.is/usxRA

Such freedoms, like in doge meme wow

Apologise for linking RFE article, but it's kinda funny because most other western outlets just copied them, and even funnier because they used even more biased language than a fucking RFE.

Also take notes:
Socialist countries mildly controlling the reactionary religious institutions: OMG BANNING RELIGION, OPRESSION, FASCISM, MISTAKE, ALIENATING PROLETARIAT (choose your flavour)
Neonazi US puppet outright banning church with millions believers: "Spiritual sovereignity"

https://archive.is/5xKEN

https://archive.ph/D5fWO

The President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, has accepted an invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin to participate in the upcoming summit of the BRICS group. The information was confirmed by the Palestinian ambassador to Moscow, Abdel Hafiz Nofal, who stressed that PA President Mahmoud Abbas accepted the invitation to participate in the BRICS summit to be held in the Russian city of Kazan.

Nofal pointed out that it has not yet been defined whether the Palestinian representation will be occupied by Abbas himself or whether Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa will participate in his place. But he stressed the importance of Palestinian representation at the event, regardless of who ultimately attends on behalf of the PNA.

The invitation to Abbas to participate in the BRICS summit and the group's endorsement of Palestinian membership in the UN highlight the growing interest and support of these countries for the Palestinian cause in a context of rising tensions in the Middle East.

https://archive.ph/HFURU