Ecuador Rejects Foreign Military Bases

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, 17 Nov 2025

David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service

People of Ecuador 1 — Military Industrial Complex 0

16 Nov 2025 – In 2007, then-President of Ecuador Rafael Correa said he wanted a military base in Miami if the United States were to continue using a military base in Ecuador.

Bye bye, U.S. bases!

More recently, however, times changed. Pressures were applied. A new Ecuadorean government expressed its willingness to do as it is told.

But there was one flaw in the new plan for the spreading of U.S. democracy by force, namely democracy. The people of Ecuador have just voted down their government’s proposal to amend their constitution to allow foreign bases.

Here is the vote count.

Sixty-one percent said No to this question:

¿Está usted de acuerdo con que se elimine la prohibición de establecer bases militares extranjeras o instalaciones extranjeras con propósitos militares, y de ceder bases militares nacionales a fuerzas armadas o de seguridad extranjeras, reformando parcialmente la Constitución de conformidad con el Anexo de la pregunta?

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David Swanson is the author of War Is A Lie and Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia and has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich’s 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN. http://davidswanson.org http://warisacrime.org.

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