Ecuador’s president dissolves National Assembly to avoid impeachment



Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso terminated the impeachment proceedings against him by dissolving the National Assembly, leading the National police to prohibit former Assembly members from entering the legislative building. NBC News’ Valerie Castro shares the latest.

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44 comments

  1. lol Weak-minded voters everywhere.

  2. What Lasso did was remove the Ecuadorian version of Trumpsters in the Ecuadorian Senate. The people he removed supported a previous ideology “Correismo” that supported expresident Correa and his attemp to return to Ecuadorian politics. While Lasso’s actions may not be democratic by our standards, he did get rid of senators that became millionaires overnight under Correa. May of theses pro-correa senators got their money from loans from China that were supposed to the Ecuadorian people, projects to improve Ecuadorian living standards. These Senators were also very pro Venezuela’s Maduro, pro Cuban communism, and very pro Putin and CCP. These senators were very anti-US despite many of them investing and benefiting from their stolen money in the US.

  3. The whole country is corrupt. Pretty much doomed i would say. How do you change a country that is corrupt all the way from the top to bottom? And now the narcos have come in because they realize how easy it is here to do whatever you want..

  4. Not a good time to visit Ecuador for the next week to 6 months.

  5. Exactly what Bidens handlers would do

  6. So is he a dictator now?

  7. Who is the CIA supporting in this one?

  8. How can a nation’s president be allowed to dissolve their own country’s legislature? Isn’t that the very definition of corrupt?

  9. Another tyrant 😮😢

  10. LOL nice job man keep up the good work

  11. They saved Julian Assange from the See eye Eh. Probably having a hard time now because of it.

  12. When people are wanting their nations to dissolve parliments and senates you know we haven't been educated well.

  13. Lol Dems just did that with the IRS INVESTIGATION ON HUNTER XIDEN 🤣

  14. "Conservative leader "…
    I wonder what can go wrong in a country when you elect conservatives in power ???!!!
    If Trump only new how to dissolve his Congress.Oh man !

  15. Peru failed to do the same
    USA never thought of that
    Ecuador somehow mamaged to pull this bizarre

  16. Lasso is a disaster of a President… and the people voted in a right wing conservative banker, what a really bad idea.

  17. The people should dissolve him in a bathtub.

  18. Putin’s trainee, they will die in that chair, but never give a chance to the country…..fool dictators….

  19. They will be coming to America. And we know dirty Joe will let them in. 😔☺️

  20. But hey 13% is twice as good as his disasterous buddy Lenin Moreno at 6% who was rated the worst President of Ecuador ever.😊

  21. This sounds like something Trump would do 😂

  22. I bet Joe Biden's ears perked up when he heard this story

  23. I wish I knew about this kind of thing when I was a kid. The moment my mom tries to ground me, I could have just issued a proclamation dissolving her authority.

  24. This is whats called a "pro gamer move"

  25. My life has changed. Thank you, Jesus. I now make a weekly profit of $370,000. Our Lord God has lifted up my life! Glory to the everlasting God Almighty.

  26. Dont come up here, if you dont like the results, stay down their and fight for your better Ecuador

  27. Most people are taught that "you only need a good job to become rich". These billionaires are operating on a whole other playbook that many don't even know exists..

  28. Conservative ideas are things of the past.

  29. trickle down economics

  30. tr%mp: "WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT!?!"

  31. Sounds like a trump move.

  32. You can dissolve parliament huh

  33. Conservative parties around the world tried to take their government by force but failed.
    Sounds familiar America?
    Republicans must not be elected. Vote Democrats

  34. Oh he wants to be removed by force…. LETS GO!!!

  35. im shocked that the police back this dude when he has a 13% approval. seems a little.

  36. Anything to stay in power…😑😐😑 #TerriblyShameful

  37. Emperor Palpatine?

  38. Why doesn't NBC tell Americans about how John Durham just erased the 4 year Russia collusion lie that they preached for the last 5 years?

  39. There's power that Trump wishes he had, as he said after being forced out of the white house he wanted to throw out the constitution.

  40. Almost every day, I see something that makes me certain I was right, to not have kids.