This is a much more severe, successful repeat of what the US tried to pull against Lula in Brazil, with Bolsonaro as puppet. The new, US-backed president of Ecuador is now trying to change the constitution to allow US military bases in the country.
It seems that in reaction to the Latin American pink tide in the 2000s, the US pretty much backed and funded the entire conservative wave afterwards.
For more info on how this relates to similar events in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and elsewhere, BadEmpanada made a good recap here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrvEha9C_Js
They’re not made by Motorola (which is Chinese). They were made by Gold Apollo (which is Taiwanese).
This was a really hard lesson for Hezbollah to learn to always buy shit from certified anti-imperialist sources and not from fake China. China should airlift Huawei devices to Hezbollah to replace them.
On the other hand, the Axis of Resistance has never had a better excuse to annihilate Israel in response.