Electoral Fraud in Ecuador is Linked to Drug Trafficking: Cabello
Donald Trump (L) and Daniel Noboa (R), 2025. X/ @BenjaminNorton
April 24, 2025 Hour: 11:02 am
The presidential runoff’s results are “one of the most colossal scams in world political history,’ the PSUV leader said.
On Wednesday, Diosdado Cabello, secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), described the official results of the presidential runoff election in Ecuador as “one of the most colossal scams in world political history.”
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On April 13, millions of Ecuadorians went to the polls to elect their next president, choosing between Citizen Revolution candidate Luisa Gonzalez and President Daniel Noboa, who was seeking reelection for the 2025–2029 term.
According to the results released by the National Electoral Council (CNE), Noboa defeated Gonzalez by a margin of more than 11 percentage points. This result, however, was unprecedented, given that Gonzalez had consistently been the favorite to win according to most voter intention polls. In fact, immediately after the elections concluded on Sunday, two exit polls confirmed that trend.
During the TV program “Con el Mazo Dando,” the PSUV leader, who is also Venezuela’s Interior Minister, claimed that only U.S. imperialism is capable of carrying out an electoral fraud of such magnitude.
“Ecuador is now the meeting point for the world’s biggest criminals. Uribe and Santos moved their drug trafficking operations there,” Cabello said, referring to former Colombian presidents, Alvaro Uribe and Juan Manuel Santos, who have been linked to transnational organized crime. The PSUV leader denounced that Ecuador’s sitting president welcomed this situation “with open arms.”
“They handed the country over to drug trafficking, contract killings, and criminality. It was impossible for them to allow the real winner to prevail,” Cabello declared, and he pointed out that the transnational right is silent today regarding the electoral fraud in Ecuador.
“That’s very strange despite the protests of the Ecuadorian people,” he said, implicitly highlighting the double standards used by hegemonic media outlets when interpreting political processes in Latin America.
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Source: VTV
