IMF approves $4.2bn loan for Ecuador

[tsukasagenesis]

assange go in jai and 2 days latter IMF approve loan ... seem nice timing there

[lucozade]

And backdated the article about the loan to the 12th March. Very cunning.

Either that or someone has posted a month old article that happens to, topically, mention Ecuador.

[NotPaidToPost]

I think the key is that they have a new President.

Rafael Correa, the former President, was aligned with Venezuela and Chavez.

Lenin Moreno, the new President, has been much more friendly to the US despite his first name...

[eraad]

Please be advised that the news article is dated March 2019. No relation at all.

[MagnumOpus]

The loan was agreed on the 21st of February. The article is from March.

[timrichard]

Certainly more plausible than him not keeping his room tidy.

[yostrovs]

Does anyone have any data on how well IMF loans are repaid?

[itake]

As I am reading it, not great in the recent years.

https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extrep1.aspx

[kzcqt]

I'm thinking that people would consider it concerning and alarming if this loan wasn't given by the IMF but by China.

[Gunstig2Snath]

Just a few days later Assange is evicted from their ambassy in London. that must have been one of the conditions. It's how the IMF rolls, clearly, totally in the pocket of the vile empire called the USA.

[cheez]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/manafort-assa...