In an effort to ingratiate himself with Donald Trump, Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa offered to allow a US military base in the Latin American nation.
There was one issue though, the country's constitution forbids foreign bases on its soil.
So, the Noboa held an election to change the Ecuadorian Constitution and campaigned aggressively for the change.
Ecuadoran voters were not buying his bullsh%$:
President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador has spent months courting Washington. He has met with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago; formed an alliance with the Blackwater founder Erik Prince, a Trump supporter; and pressed to allow U.S. military bases in Ecuador.
But voters at home delivered Mr. Noboa a sharp rebuke.
They soundly rejected a national referendum on Sunday that he had backed, aimed at authorizing a foreign miliary presence in Ecuador. With more than 98 percent of ballots counted, 61 percent opposed the measure.
The vote comes as the region has been roiled by the intensifying U.S. military campaign against boats the Trump administration claims are smuggling drugs.
The American military has launched 21 strikes that have killed at least 83 people, though U.S. officials have yet to provide evidence that the boats were ferrying drugs. Many legal experts say the attacks violate international law.
Even if Trump were not assassinating random fishermen.,the history of the US, and US military bases in Latin America, the United States supported a coup in Honduras during the Obama administration, would make sensible people legitimately suspicions such development.
The history of US involvement in Latin America is not a pretty one.
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