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I imagine it is more todo with politics than a cat. Ecuador is heavily indebted to China due to previous President Correa turning away from the west and pivotin
by senorjazz 7y ago
I imagine it is more todo with politics than a cat. Ecuador is heavily indebted to China due to previous President Correa turning away from the west and pivoting to China.
With oil prices so low the country is unable to pay the loans and in need of refinancing. The new president has tried to bring the country back into the western sphere of influence by going back to the world bank / IMF (one of those or a similar western financial institution.
- pytester 7y agoThere was a BBC interview with Moreno where they asked him why he was kicked out and he brought up the cat story. They then asked him if it wasn't instead because Assange was a spy. He said no. Not asked about : What the previous president said was the real reason - wikileaks' leaked evidence of Moreno's corruption : https://twitter.com/mashirafael/status/1116386840502775809?lang=en https://twitter.com/mashirafael/status/1116386840502775809?l... I made a complaint to the BBC about not asking about this somewhat critical fact and Liam Reynolds of the BBC replied that they were "fair and balanced" because they considered both accusations that he didn't clean up after his cat and the accusations that he was spying. So there's that.
- coliveira 7y agoMost journalists are simply cowards. They know the importance of the things they are covering, and they know that saying the wrong things will be bad for them. So they play along the game, knowing that maintaining the facade they will get good promotions and stay in the media. That's the only explanation I can find for the way they are complicit with this kind of thing.
- Fnoord 7y agoThe servants of those in power are afraid to lose their current privileges. That's no different in communist GDR, capitalist USA, or religious India.