FDLP-Ecuador: DANIEL NOBOA, TRUMP’S BASTARD SON!

We hereby share an unofficial translation of a statement issued by the Defense Front of the People’s Struggles of Ecuador (FDLP-EC).

Daniel Noboa has been rehearsing a foreign policy made up of grandiose gestures and unilateral decisions that places him in a unique position of sycophancy and bootlicking. The episode with Colombia illustrates this clearly: first it announced a 30% tax on Colombian imports, wrapping it in a discourse of “security” and external blame regarding drug trafficking, and he did so symbolically from Davos, Switzerland, like someone seeking approval in the halls of global power for his stupidity; a pronouncement which, naively and shamelessly, they applauded like seals; in the end, Noboa expressed himself bluntly, radically, and reluctantly, not because he has any speech problems, but because his intellectual and academic level, in addition to his state of psychosis resulting from everything that he snorted, prevents him from stringing together a couple of coherent lines. Due to that, he was very welcomed in Davos.

Then, when Bogotá responded with temporary measures such as the temporary suspension of electricity sales, the bastard Trump decided to escalate the dispute by raising the tariff by 900% of the Colombian crude oil transport via the OCP [Translator’s note: an Ecuadorian company which transports oil], from $2.50 to $30. This measure was presented as “reciprocal” and “energy security.” But what we see is not an intelligent defense of the national interest, impossible coming from Noboa!; it is the cult of retaliation as a method, the Trumpian reflex to turn trade and interdependence into political weapons, although the cost will ultimately be paid by ordinary people, producers, and the very stability of the border that in itself is already a powder keg.

That style is also evident in language. Noboa insists that drug trafficking “operates from neighboring territories”, fabricating a narrative of external threat that simplifies a complex phenomenon and, incidentally, helps to shift internal responsibilities. The similarity with Trump, is not just in using the tariffs as a cudgel or in the use of coup diplomacy; it is in the staging of a security “order” that needs enemies to sustain itself, and that is why it poisons the regional political climate; this scenario, as we well know, is strategically exploited by Trump.

Within that same media network there is already talk, openly, of “copying” a “Trump formula” in the fight against drug trafficking, which reveals a desire to import frameworks of politics and propaganda to justify everything done so far by imperialism in Venezuela, and the threats of aggression against Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba.

Ultimately, the most worrying thing is a contradiction: sovereignty is invoked as a slogan while it is emptied of meaning. In practice, this means the country is yielding to the US agenda on “security”, operations and cooperation, as if the solution was to hand over the strategic use of the State to serve foreign interests. That’s not foreign policy: it’s servile administration. Noboa’s actions are just Trumpism in name: penal trade tariffs, dramatization of conflict, and thoughtless alignment, all to project a “tough” image to the outside world, while, behind closed doors, we live one of biggest the crises of bureaucratic capitalism ever seen.

Let’s confront Trump’s bastard son as befits the conscious element of the class and the people: with organization, political clarity, and mobilization. Let’s form the Anti-Imperialist Front as an instrument of the vast majority to curb the ambitions of imperialism and its henchman, determined to hand over the country to the mercy of the strategic plans of the Yankees. Our response must be firm and collective: unity in anti-imperialist objectives; and sustained struggle for national sovereignty and the rights of the people.

YANKEES GO HOME!

LET’S BUILD THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST FRONT!

ORGANIZE, COMBAT AND RESIST!