The Antifascist International, Ecuador Chapter, denounces fraud in Ecuador's presidential election. “Faced with this emergency, we call on the Ecuadorian people to active and organized resistance. The struggle continues and must intensify in the streets.."

The International Collective of CELAC Social denounces “the serious attack on the popular will” committed in Ecuador's presidential election. The Executive Secretariat of ALBA says that irregularities in Ecuador's runoff election suggests “the execution of a clear premeditated electoral fraud.”

US airstrikes did continue on Yemen for the 30th night in a row, with strikes targeting a factory leading to the killing of civilians. Sana’a and Marib Governorate were targeted by multiple rounds of airstrikes. There were two significant statements from the Yemeni Armed Forces, one to do with firing Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBMs) at Israel, another to do with shooting down the 19th MQ-9 Reaper drone.

The launching of MRBMs at Israel again is a significant development. It's been 14 days, exactly two weeks, since the last MRBM launch, and 17 days since the last launch of a MaRV capable Palestine-2 MRBM. So Ansarallah is fighting to maintain and rebuild capabilities amongst the intense US Navy air campaign against it. As a commentator pointed out earlier today, THAAD air defence interceptor missiles were likely used to intercept the MaRV of the Palestine-2 missile. There were pictures of the boosters online.

As for how the MQ-9s get shot down even during the ongoing SEAD campaign, these shootdowns don't happen over Sana'a or Saada Governorates where a pathway has been opened up to allow them to operate without being shot down and even on video, but in other areas. Also, there is a surface to air loitering munition that Ansarallah have called Missile-358. It's basically a Lancet, but for taking out air targets. It's not a traditional air defence system with a radar and so forth. Perfect for slow and low flying drones in visual range like the MQ-9.

Warning for potential graphic imagery of casualties during ongoing airstrikes:

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Nicaragua has withdrawn its support for South Africa's case against the Apartheid entity at the ICJ, confirmed on 3 April - ICJ official post

No immediate reason was given, but it is suspected that Trump had painted a target on Nicaragua's back and may have threatened to retaliate against the 450,000 Nicaraguans living in the US, in addition to Nicaragua's cordial relations with South Africa (who is now also being accused of complicity in 7 October, as an escalation of atrocity propaganda by the Orange Führer's friends).

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Ecuador Election Update BREAKING: “We don’t recognize the results,” says Revolución Ciudadana candidate.

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Vargas Llosa has died.

Peruvian writer and politician Mario Vargas Llosa died this Sunday in Lima, where he lived with his family. Since distancing himself from left-wing politics, he has embraced right-wing politics. In 1989, The Washington Post would write that though Vargas Llosa's party appeared center-right, "he has ties with far-right politicians in other countries".

Vargas Llosa has continued to be criticized due to his association with far-right groups and politicians. The Christian Science Monitor would call Vargas Llosa "a right-wing maverick" while Jacobin would plainly describe him as a "far-right novelist".

Vargas Llosa has described himself as a supporter of liberalism and said that the individuals who have had most impact on his political thought have included Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek and Isaiah Berlin. According to The Nation, Vargas Llosa would condemn leftist groups entirely due to the controversies of some while minimizing similar actions by neoliberal governments.

He supported right-wing libertarian candidate Javier Milei in the 2023 Argentine general election. Following the arrest of Augusto Pinochet for crimes against humanity in 1999, Vargas Llosa would write an op-ed in The New York Times asking why left wing dictators were also not being arrested.

During the 2022 Brazilian general election, Vargas Llosa expressed his endorsement for conservative leader Jair Bolsonaro. "The case of Bolsonaro it's a hard question. His jokes are very hard to endorse, for a liberal [...] Now, between Bolsonaro and Lula, I prefer Bolsonaro. Even with jokes from Bolsonaro, Lula no." said Vargas Llosa at a conference

Wisconsin teen killed parents as part of Trump assassination plot - apnews link as well.

A newly unsealed search warrant also alleges that the suspect's phone contained material relating to a neo-Nazi group called the Order of Nine Angles and praise for Adolf Hitler.

The alleged double murder "appeared to be an effort to obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary to carrying out his plan", investigators wrote.

The trump would-be-assassins are getting crazier every time

Ecuador Election Update (Sources: Radio Pichincha):

Luiza Gonzalez: denounces electoral fraud after the first official results of the ballot. “There are about 11 polls in which all of them, even those of the government itself, gave us the victory”, she emphasizes. “I denounce before my people, the media and the world that we are living a dictatorship and we are facing the worst and most grotesque electoral fraud in the history of the Republic of Ecuador”, she asserts.

“In the name of the men, women, children and young people we represent, in the name of the people we represent, we do not recognize the results presented by the CNE”, said Luisa Gonzalez from the headquarters of Revolucion Ciudadana. She also indicated that they will request the recount of votes and the opening of the ballot boxes.

Correristas claim they have 52% of the votes, against 48% of Daniel Narcoa

Ex-Marxist turned right-winger Mario Vargas Llosa, candidate for the Peruvian presidency in 1990, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 89.

https://elpais.com/cultura/2025-04-14/muere-mario-vargas-llosa-gigante-de-las-letras-universales.html

Stranger still, is that the gap isn't narrowing much as the CNE count progresses through provinces where the RC excels. CNE's figures suggest that Luisa didn't gain votes even with all the endorsements she received in round 1. Not even Pachakutik's votes? Inconceivable.

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CNE results site: Daniel Noboa holds a 12-point lead over Luisa González with 80.53% of votes counted.

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I guess Noboa is going to win. CIA/US wins once again

Clarification: China has stopped exports of almost all rare earth minerals and magnets, while they implement a new system that will prevent those minerals & magnets from reaching select US corporations, primarily US weapons manufacturers. Then, exports will resume.

Article is too long to post here so, tl;dr: Over 100,000 Israelis have stopped appearing for reserve duty. Attendance rates for the reserves have reportedly dropped to 50-60 percent.

https://www.972mag.com/israeli-army-refusal-crisis-gaza-war/

russians struck some military ceremony in center of sumy, but hit civilians nearby :(

what being a lib does to mfers, just strike z-man, ffs.

Pavel Palisa a top ukrainian official wants women conscripted into army. "No matter how wild it sounds now, maybe we need to learn the experience of Israel in this" https://zamin.uz/en/world/147845-ukraine-may-introduce-mandatory-military-service-for-women.html