Magnicide Complaint Is a New Show To Disperse Attention: Ecuador’s Professor Dax Toscano
Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa, his wife Lavinia Valbonesi (L), and Ecuador’s Vice President-elect María José Pinto wave from the Government Palace this Tuesday, during the traditional Changing of the Presidential Guard ceremony in Quito. Photo: EFE/José Jácome
April 19, 2025 Hour: 1:58 pm
In the face of the electoral fraud in Ecuador, the so called elected president Daniel Noboa, issued on Saturday a statement entitled “The revenge of bad losers”, in which it warned about an alleged plan of “magnicide” against attributed to “Mexican hitmen” and “defeated political sectors.”
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Dax Toscano Segovia, Master in Social Communication and professor at the National University of Quito says that the Ecuadorian government is resorting to a “spectacle” to evade the debate on accusations of electoral manipulation.
“The last rulers, like Moreno, Lasso, and now Noboa, have used spectacle as a mechanism to generate followers and disqualify the main opponent: former President Rafael Correa and the Citizen Revolution,” he stated.
For Toscano, the accusations are part of “a new show in the face of the denunciation of fraud or a fraudulent process in the last elections held in Ecuador and that the OAS itself is pointing out the inconsistencies of that process.” Faced with these accusations, then they have to “divert attention with a new spectacle, a new show, the assassination against the president.”
And he adds: “if this president who has the support of the United States, who has the mercenaries of Eric Brines, Blackwater, here, is the subject of an assassination, it is a really unbelievable thing.”
According to Toscano, the language of the Ministry of Government’s statement this Saturday, in which it assures that it will respond “with all force” to the alleged threat, is a warning that there will be brutal repression against the opposition forces to prevent any uprisings or mobilizations.
The government of Daniel Noboa in Ecuador, decreed a state of emergency in the capital and seven provinces during the electoral process and leaked a black list of opposition candidates with prohibition to leave the country.
Toscano claims that these repressive measures are due to the fact that the economic policies implemented by the government will harm the popular sectors, thus trying to curb opposition under questionable justifications.
Autor: ACJ
Fuente: teleSURtv.net
