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Extreme Lawfare and the MAGA Offensive in Latin America

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Ecuadorian leftist leader Luisa González recently warned that there is “a whole sinister network involving Marco Rubio, MAGA, and Latin American presidents who are destroying our countries to turn Latin America into their backyard.” A few days after her eerily prescient statement, she was arrested on politically motivated charges. By John Perry and Roger D. Harris MAGA, in this context, refers to the larger US imperial project under Donald Trump…

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In Ecuador, former presidential candidate Luisa González, from the Citizen Revolution movement, remains in pretrial detention as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering related to the financing of her election campaign of 2023. From her movement, they denounce a political persecution against the opposition that they attribute to the government of President Daniel Noboa. González’s defense questions the process and speaks of a “cle…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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By Blair Goodman /Latin American Summary, November 3, 2026. Originally published in NACLA on October 29, 2026. The arrest of former presidential candidate Luisa González is the last episode of a series of judicial attacks against opposition parties in Ecuador in the face of local elections. On October 30, the entry Ecuador. The judicial persecution leaves the Ecuadorian opposition out of the elections was first published in Latin American Summar…

Lawfare as State Terrorism in Ecuador: now Luisa González Near four o'clock in the morning of October 22, 2026, Ecuadorian Police and Prosecutor's Office broke down the door of Luisa González's house in Canuto, Manabí, and took her in detention in front of her mother and younger son. González was two [...] La entrada Lawfare as State Terrorism in Ecuador: now Luisa González – By Lawfare Observatory aparece primero en NODAL.

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NODAL broke the news on Monday, November 2, 2026.
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