Ecuador – FDLP-EC: ORGANIZE THE OUTRAGE TO REMOVE NOBOA FROM OFFICE
We hereby share an unofficial translation of a report published by the Defense Front of the People’s Struggles (FDLP-EC) on November 8.
On November 7, 2026, massive marches took place in Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Loja, Manta, Santo Domingo, Ibarra, and other cities across the country against the policies of Daniel Noboa’s fascistoid government.
In the capital, starting from La Alameda Park, social organizations, workers, and students marched toward the Constitutional Court and the Attorney General’s Office. Kidney patients and their families joined the protest, demanding answers to their demands regarding health care, education, and security.
The presence of patients in need of dialysis underscored not only the urgency of these demands but also how vulnerable sectors of society are joining the protests despite physical challenges. Many of our comrades from this sector arrived in wheelchairs, accompanied by their families, making it clear that popular discontent is capable of mobilizing the broad majorities willing to fight one of the most repressive, corrupt, brutal, and oppressive regimes of recent times.
Students also participated in the march and spoke out in defense of public education. They demanded funding, an end to the government’s plans to close the “Amawtay Wasi” university, and job security for teachers.
Healthcare workers were also present, demanding funding, hospital equipment, a steady supply of medicines, wage increases for workers, and an end to layoffs of public health system staff.
On behalf of the Defense Front of the People’s Struggles, in alliance with the Anti-Imperialist Front of Ecuador, we recognize the efforts of those who gathered for this important day of struggle despite the weather, the massive military and police presence, and the judicial persecution of the march’s organizers. Furthermore, we would like to commend the alternative digital media outlets known as “popular communication,” which managed to break through the media blackout orchestrated by the government and its controlled press.
Although the mobilization drew a large and significant turnout, we believe it cannot remain merely a short-term response. Doing so leaves the government room to unleash its demobilizing populist programs and its campaign of intimidation – or to wait for the mobilizations to lose momentum. Each day of action must incorporate more sectors, especially the poor peasantry, without whom it is impossible to advance the indispensable class alliance of the popular front; in this way, a necessary, and even inevitable, social upheaval will occur that will consign the government, imperialism, and their puppets to the dustbin of history.
We need to take a political leap forward. For the Front, that leap must have an explicit goal: to build the popular force that will fight for Noboa’s removal from office. We must stand firm on our immediate demands, but we must also discuss with the masses the government’s responsibility for the crisis and the abject living conditions of the majority – and therefore, the need to bring its term to an end.
The Front must contribute to this popular alliance by respecting the independence of the organizations, but under a single platform for struggle.
We must bear in mind that the puppet government, in a campaign driven by its network of information centres, dared to claim that, by arresting certain “political leaders” allegedly linked to drug trafficking, it had curtailed the funding for these types of mobilizations. These statements reveal the political agenda of these wretched individuals and expose a frightened government that, like a hyena in such circumstances, becomes even more dangerous: it will do everything in its power to neutralize popular organization and mobilization.
People of Ecuador, we must be clear that the regime seeks to stigmatize mass mobilization as if it were a political tool promoted by Revolución Ciudadana and Unidad Popular for electoral and destabilizing purposes.
One of the successes of those of us who have helped organize this march has been our vehement insistence that campaigners not be allowed to use it to spread their opportunistic messages. The success of the rally rests on agreements like this, which lend legitimacy to the political work of the organizing groups. We aim to maintain this stance over time and prevent these profiteers of the masses’ pain and struggles from infiltrating the ranks of the people.
Removing Noboa from office requires a much greater force than the one gathered on November 7. That is the task we must take on from now on: to expand our organization and sustain a popular mobilization that transforms scattered demands into a political struggle capable of thwarting the regime’s attempts to maintain its power through bloodshed, imprisonment, and violence. May the next rally become a storm of workers, peasants, and the people that dethrones the would-be tyrant and his henchmen.
We cannot fail to express our deepest condemnation of the puppet-like behavior of Prosecutor Carlos Alarcón, who – in an attempt to curry favor so that the illegitimate Council for Citizen Participation would appoint him attorney general – staged a legal charade just hours before the march against the leaders of the mobilization, including the comrade in charge of the Anti-Imperialist Front, accusing them of “unlawful association.”
As befits a fascist, Noboa continues his policy of persecuting and imprisoning popular fighters.
We will be closely monitoring the developments in this judicial, police, and prison-based persecution. As a popular organization, we will not tolerate this kind of abuse.
MAY THE NOVEMBER 7 MOBILIZATION LEAD TO THE EXPULSION OF NOBOA AND IMPERIALISM
ONLY THROUGH STRUGGLE CAN WE STOP THE CAMPAIGN OF REPRESSION, IMPRISONMENT, AND DEATH DRIVEN BY NOBOA’S PUPPET GOVERNMENT
LET US NOT ALLOW THE CANCER OF ELECTORAL POLITICS TO CONTAMINATE THE PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE
MAY OUR INDIGNATION BECOME A POWERFUL WEAPON OF STRUGGLE!
ORGANIZE, COMBAT, AND RESIST!
