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07SAOPAULO364
2007-04-30 10:52:00
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Consulate Sao Paulo
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION: ECUADOR, PRES. CORREA'S LEADERSHIP; SAO
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SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: ECUADOR, PRES. CORREA'S LEADERSHIP; SAO
PAULO
Chaos in Ecuador
Article in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (4/30) says: "What goes
on in Ecuador is cruely simple...the institutions do not work.... In
early March the Supreme Electoral Court ousted 57 of the 100
deputies who opposed the institution of a referendum on the need of
a new constitution....[Once] the election for a constitutional
assembly was called the Constitutional Court reinstated 51
lawmakers...Congress, then, cancelled that ruling... The
[reinstated] congressmen were driven away from Congress by an angry
mob...At least six fled to Colombia...another 18 will likely follow
suit.... President Rafael Correa... said: "The government has
nothing to do with the dispute between the Judicial and the
Legislative branches". Of course it does. This is all part of Rafael
Correa's political project which, although he denies it, but
basically follows...the example of colonel Hugo Chavez."
McMullen