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| Update: Ecuador In State Of Seige, Region Supports Correa |
| 2010-10-01 |
| Ecuador was under a state of siege Friday, the streets quiet with the military in charge of public order, after soldiers rescued President Rafael Correa from a hospital where he'd been surrounded by police who roughed him up and tear-gassed him earlier. The leaders of Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay, Colombia and Venezuela rushed to Buenos Aires for an emergency session of the continent's fledgling UNASUR defense union, meeting with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez and her husband Nestor Kirchner, the union's secretary general. Early Friday, they resolved to send their foreign ministers to Quito and issued a resolution saying that they "energetically condemn the attempted coup and subsequent kidnapping of President Rafael Correa Delgado." They also called for those responsible to be tried and convicted, and warned that in the event of new threats to the constitutional order, they would immediately close frontiers and air traffic, suspend commerce and cut off energy supplies and other services to Ecuador. You knew this part was coming -- Both Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia alleged in Buenos Aires on Friday that the United States was somehow behind the police rebellion. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #4 PS - anyone check Iran's press - I'm sure Israel had some involvement here as well! |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-10-01 15:00 |
| #3 It's interesting how bass-ackward press coverage of Latin and South America is. Just ask any recent college grad, or MSM viewer or reporter, to name the four largest SA countries, or the two largest in Central American. Odds are they'd get less than 3 of them. Mexico is spiraling into chaos, but so much of the focus is on the failing leftists of SA, and so little on the increasingly successful right and center-right countries. Sure bad news leads, but we don't need to give Hugo a forum (much as the current administration seems inclined to), and Ecuador and Bolivia are not as far degraded as Venezuala, let alone Cuba. They can still self-correct, much as their "leaders" seek to prevent it. Meanwhile, what's the latest bad political news from Brazil, Colombia, Peru or Chile? How about Guatemala or Honduras? Someday Ecuador will be a rich country; chance alone indicates they'll stumble into a competent leader at some point, and she won't need to do much. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-10-01 14:59 |
| #2 Ought to rename them the "Dictator Defense League". |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-10-01 14:18 |
| #1 heh. yes I did |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-10-01 13:15 |