Fernando Villavicencio, the Ecuadorian presidential candidate assassinated on Wednesday, had a long history of anti-China positions.
that “Ecuador has been a colony of China since 2007,” the year when Rafael Correa, a notorious anti-American socialist currently living in exile, began his first presidential term.This Stolen Country of Mineproduced in Germany and released in 2022 that exposed the growing and far-reaching Chinese influence in Ecuador that the Communist Party was able to attain through thousands of contracts signed during Correa’s presidency .
The contracts signed under Correa not only made Ecuador dependent on Chinese credit funds, but also gave China control of Ecuador’s mines, committed Ecuadorian oil to the Asian nation, and gave China influence over the country’s infrastructure and natural resources, including gold and uranium mines as well as technological infrastructure.
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