Report Layout Ecuador Strike Hazard Excerpted from: Daily
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President of Ecuador Rafael Correa
[SEPA / Journal Weight] Presented as a simple riot police, as a claim of an industry association and wages, the traditional press initially minimized the serious institutional crisis in Ecuador , until the facts showed that it was an attempt to destabilize the country's institutions, a clear move to oust President Rafael Correa .
The images were compelling, they showed a president who boldly came out against the rebels and they assaulted him with tear gas grenades that exploded less than a meter from the head. Offenders also prevented the President receives oxygen mask after the attack.
Following this attack, Rafael Correa was taken to a hospital attached to the Police. After that, the hospital was surrounded and besieged by the rebels and until the end of this year, they keep captive. According to wire last time, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño was wounded in the head by the rebels, after instructing the people of Ecuador to come out in defense of President Rafael Correa .
| | | If this is not a clear act of sedition, "What is ? At this stage of events, UNASUR [Union of South American Nations], reacted immediately, deploring the incident and calling for an urgent meeting of the Presidents of the nations that make up in Buenos Aires . In Washington, after a lukewarm reaction, OAS [Organization of American States] has joined the repudiation. The memory remembers what happened in Honduras on the occasion of the military coup that overthrew then President Manuel Zelaya . Paradoxically, the son of the military coup, the current pseudo-institutional President Porfirio Lobo has repudiated what happened in Ecuador, according to some analysts in an apparent attempt to conceal the serious institutional misconduct and repeated violations of Human Rights occur today in Honduras . | |
The European Community has rejected the coup attempt in Ecuador as well as South American nations. However, in an unprecedented act of sincerity, the Government of United States President Barack Obama , has merely said that "... who are watching with interest developments in Ecuador ...."
The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales , openly accused, the U.S. government of backing the coup against Rafael Correa , told press the government house in La Paz.
" already had advance information, as always political adversaries in Latin America allied with (the) U.S. government try to eliminate mandates, when a referendum can not (try) to the coup. The story repeated, "said Morales .
This statement was referring to a campaign launched in Ecuador by opponents, to convene a recall referendum mandate [institution with some constitutions] and apparently would not have been echo expected in the population.
The weather and the uncertainty of events are allies of the completion of another major institutional rape in Latin America, showing how fragile and weak institutions that traditional media is memory, whose support for democracy is selective . It should be remembered that this crisis coincided with the removal of Ecuador decided by U.S. troops stationed at the military base in Mantua from ten years ago.
is expected that the presidents of UNASUR defined in Buenos Aires a joint strategy to overcome the crisis.
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