Ecuador: FDLP – Semi-colonial countries, vassal governments
We hereby share an unofficial translation of a statement published by the Front to Defend the Struggles of the People of Ecuador (FDLP-EC) on the electoral farce which takes place today in the country.
Imperialism, mainly Yankee, brings or brought nothing good to Third World countries.
It has been that way historically. Since they imposed capitalism in societies where feudality was not eradicated, a system was made in which capitalism did not eliminated semi-feudality, but it subordinated and transformed that or made it evolve into new forms. This phenomenon brought a new monstrosity: bureaucratic capitalism.
This system not only prevents the national development of oppressed countries, but also exacerbates all internal contradictions. Its effect cannot be expressed in another way. Therefore we need to erase our condition of being a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.
Trump’s latest maneuvers evidence how functional are puppet governments, particularly in America, to imperialism and its international policy. These, in a clear attitude of vassalage, serve the most sinister interests of imperialism, sacrificing the sovereignty and the rights of their peoples.
The Salvadorian government and State are a clear example of this subjugation. This is a country whose economy depends largely on remittances sent by its migrants, mainly those based in United States, who contribute approximately one of each four dollars to the national GDP. Despite this reality, the Nayib Bukele government does not show a true interest for its migrants, except for the economic weight that they represent. And if to guarantee this income flow, it must give up his country’s sovereignty to the interests of Washington, it will not hesitate to do so.
Bukele has brought this subjugation to the extreme by converting El Salvador into a gigantic prison, not only for Salvadorians deported from United States but also for prisoners of other nationalities, in exchange for a payment that, according to him, will serve to sustain the country’s prison system.
Nothing good can be expected from a country where the economic structure depends on the remittances and not in internal production; where 1.7% of the total population is imprisoned and where one of the most relevant sectors is not industry, agriculture or innovation, but the business of prisons and their prison guards.
The situation of Guatemala is not very different, a country that, without any consideration for its fragile economic and social situation, has accepted to receive deported migrants from the United States regardless of their nationality. It is an impoverished country, without the capacity to offer work or social spendings to its own citizens, and still serves to please the demands of Trump. That is astonishing. It is obvious that the economic and social impact will be devastating for Guatemalans: and in terms of sovereignty, consequences will be also serious.
Ecuador is not far behind them. Daniel Noboa’s government follows the same pattern of behavior. Noboa, faithful representative of the most reactionary sectors of the great bourgeoisie and the big landlords, has decided fulfill the orders of his master, the United States, imposing economic sanctions to Mexico by raising tariffs to imported products from that country (27%).
But the vassal does not understand that, of the 600 million dollars in imports from Mexico every year, a large part corresponds to medicines, directly affecting Ecuadorian citizens. With this and other measures, Noboa not only deepens the semi-colonial character of our society, but it pushes us to a greater Yankee presence in the country and, with it, greater humiliation, misery, exploitation and oppression.
Imperialism brings nothing good to our countries. Only misery, oppression and tutelage. It is essential to understand this. Only by having clear the role that it performs, particularly the United States, in our societies, we will be able to draw the correct tactics and strategy to get rid of the weight of the three mountains: imperialism, bureaucratic capitalism and semi-feudality.
And we have to be clear, this task will not be resolved at the polls, as revisionism, opportunism and imperialism itself wants us to make it believe. True transformation will only be possible through People’s War.
DEATH TO IMPERIALISM!
ORGANIZE, COMBAT AND RESIST!
