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Ecuador is suspending a visa agreement with China amid a "worrying increase" in arrivals who are using the South American country as a jumpoff point to begin their northbound journey to the United States to take advantage of the criminally open border. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ecuador-suspends-china-visa-deal-amid-flood-us-bound-migrants

A nationwide power blackout hit Ecuador on Wednesday afternoon, plunging 17 million people into darkness. Grid Collapse: Ecuador Hit By Nationwide Power Blackout. https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/grid-collapse-ecuador-hit-nationwide-power-blackout

In the wake of the apparent prison escapes of two of the country's most powerful drug-gang leaders, Ecuador was rocked by a variety of violent incidents on Tuesday, including an on-air takeover of a television news broadcast in the country's largest city. In response, President Daniel Noboa declared 22 gangs to be terrorist organizations and ordered the military to "neutralize" them. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gunmen-storm-live-broadcast-amid-mass-violence-ecuador-prez-declares-internal-armed

Costa Rica's President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency on Tuesday as the number of migrants passing through the Central American country on the way toward the US surges, Reuters reported. Chavez explained the tsunami of migrants is coming from Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Yemen, Bangladesh, and even China. He noted, "We all know that throughout the Americas there is a migration crisis." https://www.zerohedge.com/political/costa-rica-declares-state-emergency-migrant-crisis-rocks-americas

Ecuador has declared a countrywide state of emergency for 60 days the morning after presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was gunned down at a campaign rally in the capital, Quito. "Foreign drug mafias have joined forces with local prison and street gangs, unleashing a wave of violence unlike anything in the country’s recent history," and further notes "Homicide rates are at record levels." https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ecuadors-outspoken-anti-narco-presidential-candidate-assassinated-broad-daylight

De-Dollarization Has Begun. Moving away from the dollar brings substantial barriers to exit as well as network effects to overcome, owing to historical, technological, financial, and habitual obstacles. The US dollar is the de facto currency of East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Panama, and Zimbabwe. Further, the (comparatively, relatively) transparent conduct of monetary policy in the US has led no less than 22 foreign central banks and currency boards to peg their currencies to it. And dollars are the cheapest means of access to acquire nominally risk-free US Treasury instruments. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/de-dollarization-has-begun

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Quito in Ecuador to pressure the country's government to deliver a project that would ease water access for the indigenous population. They also demanded the country's constitutional court proceed with an impeachment hearing against Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso. https://www.bitchute.com/video/ShEaDEPUqORT/

In case you’re wondering why we should care about the ins and outs of Ukrainian bureaucracy, there are two big reasons worth paying attention to this. The first is that Americans have been paying for much of the technical development. The second is that the “government in a smartphone” concept is rapidly spreading around the world. USAID has been supporting Ukraine’s digital transformation since 2016. The volunteers that developed Diia were Ukrainians working with EPAM Systems, a software engineering company based in Pennsylvania. And EPAM Systems may be a private company, but USAID isn’t. It’s taxpayer-funded. After the Russian invasion, USAID donated another $8.5 million to Ukraine to help develop Diia’s wartime features. USAID director Samantha Power spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2023, touting Diia’s success. She and Federov both talked about the huge successes and discussed sharing Diia’s model with other countries. Incidentally, Samantha Power is married to Cass Sunstein, the author of Nudge and a number of other books that some might consider pro-social-manipulation. Power has stated that USAID intends to look for leaders in developing nations that have been running on anti-corruption platforms and sharing Diia-like technology with them to help modernize their countries. She specifically cited Zambia, the Dominican Republic, and Ecuador. In January, Estonia announced that they would begin trial runs of their mRiik app, modeled after Ukraine’s Diia. https://www.activistpost.com/2023/03/is-the-us-funding-an-experiment-in-digital-control-in-ukraine.html

The Swiss army will deploy 5,000 troops ahead of the World Economic Forum. Authorities indicated the troops were authorized to utilize coercive police measures to fulfill their security mission. According to the statement, other servicemen will provide logistics and air force operations support throughout Switzerland. Soldiers will be authorized to “use coercive police measures to carry out their respective tasks,” the government said. There will also be snipers on the roofs of most buildings, and in previous years, the Swiss Police have shot drones from the sky. The WEF predicts that soon everyone will be able to ‘rent’ anything they need under the cover of ‘sustainable development’ (SDG’s) and ‘saving the planet’ (Net Zero). There is no doubt that the tiny elites who rolled out the great reset will own it all. The number of participants in the forum is currently unknown. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, and Colombian President Gustavo Petro will attend the Davos forum personally, according to the latest information. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will also be attending. https://truthunmuted.org/wef-the-swiss-government-will-deploy-5000-troops-to-provide-security-at-the-davos-forum/