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Ecuador in Turmoil as President Denounces 'Coup Attempt'
QUITO -- Ecuador's government declared a state of emergency Thursday saying rebel troops and police were staging a coup, after seizing the main airport and storming Congress in a mutiny over pay cuts.
About 150 renegade troops seized a runway at Ecuador's international airport in the capital of the South American nation, as dozens of police protested against a new law which would strip them of some pay bonuses.
President Rafael Correa, 47, a leftist ally of his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez, swiftly denounced what he called a coup bid.
"It is a coup attempt led by the opposition and certain sections of the armed forces and the police," Correa, who has governed the country since 2007, told local television.
"If anything happens to me, they will be responsible," he added, after seeking refuge in a hospital, blaming sections of the opposition and troops loyal to former president Lucio Gutierrez for the unrest.
As tear gas was used on the streets of the capital to try to beat back crowds of police protestors, the government declared a state of emergency and vowed to use all means to restore order.
Correa has vowed he will not bow in face of the protests.
"No, I will not step back if they want to seize the barracks, if they want to leave the citizens defenseless and betray their mission," Correa told soldiers from Quito's main regiment earlier as he sought to calm tensions.
"If you want to kill the president, he is here. Kill him if you want. Kill him if you can. Kill him if you are brave enough, instead of hiding in the crowd," he said in an impassioned speech.
But tempers flared at the barracks, and the president had to leave when scuffles broke out and tear gas exploded near him. Overcome by the fumes he was taken out by stretcher to the nearby hospital.
Correa was said to be meeting late Thursday with a delegation of the renegade police, after army chief Ernesto Gonzalez called on them to end their uprising.
Gonzalez said that "troops would analyze the situation and since we are in a state of emergency, if it is needed we will intervene."
But there were conflicting reports with the Vice President Lenin Moreno saying that Correa was being held inside the hospital, by rebel police who were trying to kidnap him.
Security Minister Miguel Carvajal told reporters the armed forces "have received instructions to maintain public order and guarantee the rights of citizens."
Dozens of police units took over government buildings in the country's other two main cities, Guayaquil and Cuenca, and Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino blamed the insurrection on "sectors aiming to overthrow the government."
The unrest, which recalled a military-backed coup against the elected president in Honduras last year, rocked Ecuador's neighbors with many leaders swiftly coming out in his support. Its closest neighbors, Peru and Colombia, swift closed their joint borders with Ecuador.
The main regional group, the Organization of American States (OAS), maintained that a coup was underway and in emergency talks was drawing up a resolution urging all sides to avoid violence.
The White House expressed "full support" for Correa and called for a peaceful end to the crisis, while EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged all sides to refrain from violence.
Correa was said to be considering dissolving Congress and holding snap elections to resolve the political crisis.
Dozens of Correa supporters were meanwhile descending on the hospital where the president had sought refuge, vowing to rescue him. "Down with the coup, down with the enemies of the people," they chanted.
The leftist Correa was re-elected last year to a second term at the helm of the country of some 14.5 million people.
Since taking power in 2007, Correa has proven controversial because of his close ties to regional leftists like Chavez.
The US-educated economist took a tough stance with investors and refused to repay foreign debt, in moves welcomed by supporters who blamed the effects of the economic crisis on unbridled free-market policies.
His reelection was seen as giving some stability to the world's leading banana exporter that has seen three of its previous presidents -- between 1996 and 2006 -- ousted before the end of their terms.
Here is live coverage (in Spanish) of what is happening Ecuador on TeleSUR TV:
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Show AllIf "international election observers criticized" Ecuador's Election of corea because of "dominant media" favorable to Correa....
what are they to say of THE US MEDIA DOMINATED BY FASCISM?
Whose payroll are the "international election observers" on ?
Regionally, Ecuador appears vulnerable, a small country sandwiched in between the larger Columbia and Peru, both of which have right wing governments sympathetic to the U.S. and its military presence in the region. Hmmmm...
Watch for the empty words from Secretary Clinton...
i remember how she sputtered over Honduras. "it's a coo-coo-uh-crises. pshew"
here's a good site with video;
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/4138/coup-attempt-ecuador-result-sec-clintons-cowardice-honduras
Obama and Clinton will be happy to see Correa go.
Closer to home. Supply lines are shorter.
Now lets see "The US-educated economist took a tough stance with investors and refused to repay foreign debt, in moves welcomed by supporters who blamed the effects of the economic crisis on foreign liberalism." Well that just puts the CIA's finger prints all over this latest coup doesn't it. First Honduras and now Ecuador. Chavez would do very well to expand his intelligence agencies into the surrounding SA countries and start working overtime to liquidate CIA agents and assets before they can surround him with fascist puppets like in Columbia, Honduras and now maybe Ecuador. They have tried to overthrow him twice and the president of Bolivia once. He has to go on the offensive. You can't negotiate with America, you have to fight as dirty as they do.
Note how the US Media complains about Chavez "meddling" in his closest neighbors, and how he should be spending every cent he has on helping Venezuelans rather than wasting that oil money on dreams of South American grandeur...
But when the US sends its military and CIA thousands of miles away to meddle in Central and South American countries, and spends $billions to do it while American cities have to shut down bus lines and turn off streetlights to save money in a terrible recession -
not a peep.
It's "covert", so nothing to see here. Move along.
Criticizing American "defense" is Taboo.
Now why is that ?
Keep inmind has well that Ecuador has launched a multi billion dollar lawsuit against Chevron. Chevron has been pressuring the US government to get Ecuador to stop proceedings.
This stinks of CIA just as Honduras was.
You are dead right. There is no doubt in my mind. What bumbling idiots, sin verguenzas.
A couple of weeks ago in Oregon, I observed CIA jets flying low and fast heading south, seven or eight of them, spaced 10 minutes apart around 9AM in the morning.
I would bet this is what they were up to.
Lear Jetish, Twin engine, no markings, white in color, some have wing tip fins, flying much lower and faster and louder (souped up engines?) than a jet like that should be, flying from the north, down along the eastern edge of the pacific coast range, following the Willamette river.
Anything is possible, but if the CIA is not involved in this, then it would be an historical anomaly.
exactly.
it's CHARACTERISTIC of the "empire" that had as its Manifest Destiny :
"making latin america our BACKYARD"...which make Europe what? "our front yard"....
Asia "our Guest House, Garage, additional outdoor barbecue area"
Africa "our Swimming pool, tennis court area"
Emphasis on "OUR"....
Well, looks like folks have got this one figured out. US backed, funded and possibly organized was my first thought as well ....
The US needs another military base, the closer to Brazil the better. Brazil has just discovered an insane amount of oil off the coast of Rio and is about to elect a woman as president.
The woman I'm referring to is not a fraudulent insect like Hillary or Palin but someone who was tortured in the 70s by the Brazilian military, the same military sponsored by the US in the 1964 American-financed coup against the democratically elected Brazilian president.
I sometimes wonder if a bird falls from the air that was not the responsibility of the ...USA!
Couldn't be bad policy or bad government. Couldn't be the economy is in shambles as is Venezuela's? Couldn't be he hasn't kept all the big promises he had made?
Nope...MUST be the US and the CIA.
Since when is Venezuela's economy "in shambles"?? Especially if you're among Venezuela's poorest 25%, you're doing a heckuva lot better than you were 10 years ago in terms of nutrition, health care, educational opportunities, social security. Venezuela enjoys a lot of oil wealth, and Chavez has done a good job of helping to put a lot of it to work for the people who need it most desperately. That's why he's been re-elected.
My only complaint is with Chavez himself, who acts suspiciously like someone angling to set himself up as a lifetime ruler. He is so full of himself whenever I listen to him speak on TV, its amazing there's ever oxygen left in the room for anyone else. As with the Rev. Al Sharpton, I admire Chavez' political goals, but have trouble trusting his personal motivations. Will be interesting to see whether, when the time comes, he is willing to pass the torch onto another leader of his party, or strives to hold on to his power.
I wasn't aware that Fox News [sic] has been praising the progress that's been made in Venezuela's economy over the last decade under President Chavez. Most Fox News [sic] commentators couldn't find Venezuela on a map if it was tatooed to their foreheads.
Seriously, do you ever listen to yourself? You come across like one of those raging old people that shows up at every city council meeting for a chance to grab the microphone and launch into their favorite rant.
Take a deep breath. I suggest more vegetables, and getting outside once in awhile.
A typical response form you. I heard this same sort of stuff from those in denial thirty years ago and more.
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy , Johnson , Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush II , and Obama have all openly lied about meddling in the affairs of third world countries.
Your own governmnet openly BOASTS about funding opposition parties in those countries and there are STILL people that believe that this time the US is really really NOT involved.
I suggest you do some research on each of those Presidents. You will find them openly denying involvement in things like the Coup in Iran, or taht in Chile, or the Bombing of Cambodia, or involvement in Chile, Greece, Italy and countries too numerous to mention.
Now THIS time again when a Government in place the US does not like...this time for sure the US is not meddling?
http://www.zompist.com/latam.html
Here is just a small sample.
BTW The US denied any involvement in the Coup in Venezuala. Chavez claims otherwise and independent media has unvcovered links the US later admitted to (such as meetings with the coup leaders just prior to the attempt).
I find Chavez to be more reliable when it comes to telling the truth just as Saddam Hussein was more reliable when he claimed no WMDS in Iraq.
As much as you like to sit in the The United States of America and ridicule the integrity of the leaders of those countries and their economies, I suggest you have
far greater economic problems and problems of INTEGRITY with your own Government.
It is chock full of LIARS.
When the US denies, the US lies.
Don't we ever stop? So much energy as our people, especially our children and our parents, suffer. Not all Christians have forgotten the teachings of Jesus.
@mightymite: Do you mean to say that you don't think that this has CIA written all over it? Are you completely unaware of the very long history of the United States' illegal and corporately driven political, military and para-military activity in Central and South America? There are long detailed,footnotes included, documented tomes spelling out America's imperial involvment throughout the world... but lets just pretend it is all propaganda from those damn pointy headed professors.
This is not a bird falling from the air. I know, I know we are the biggest and boldest and brightest and best.... I should save my breath. Such intellectual dishonesty and historical ignorance precludes a discussion of actual reality.
If you follow the $ it will lead you right to the CIA.
I have to agree that its a tad too early to blame this on the CIA, I would not be surprised if they were found to have some role in it, but to act like it is a foregone conclusion without any actual evidence (I have yet to see anyone post a single piece of evidence that the CIA was involved except, Hey its the CIA you know what they do). I mean it could possibly be some pissed off police officers.
The most disturbing part is that mightmite is attacked for not backing up his claims on Venezuala, but I guess the CIA did it claim is just dogma, so no evidence is required? Giving a list of the past deeds of the CIA does not suffice for compelling evidence, at least not in and of itself. Also I don't agree that Venezuala's economy is in shambles, but to act like its doing great is just as absurd. They are coming off a year of negative GDP growth, and possibly looking at another year of contraction. They have high inflation and 10.9% official unemployment (higher than official US numbers), so to act like Venezuala is doing better than the US in terms of economy, is absurd. If you want to make a claim like that you had better have some evidence, and not treat it as fact.
The level of dogmatic beliefs such as Venezuala being some left-wing paradise that can't ever be criticized is ridiculous. Venezuala has made great accomplishments, but they are no a magical wonderland.
Why would you site a 2007 unemployment number ( US was at 4.6% at that time), before the global financial crisis. The current number is 10.9%, sorry pal. I also don't think I'd be bragging about 29.7% annual inflation, among the highest if not the highest in Latin America.
29.7% seems to be valid annual rate, 30.5% was the expected, but they actually were able to keep it under that.
Again that deja vu all over again.
The "Let us wait until there evidence before we once again blame the CIA and US meddling" is a standard response to people that suggest the CIA Playing a role in an ongoing coup.
When the CIA role is exposed UP FRONT and when the people of the Latino Countries are aware of it UP FRONT , the Coups tend to fail.
When they decide to "wait until there more evidence" the Coups succeed and 20 years later the USA mumbles some idiotic apology or indicated it will have a Commission to "Investigate the Claims" . After these Commissions a few CIA boys get slaps on the wrist and it happens all over again.
Had the World and the people of Chile been aware from DAY 1 that it was the USA orchestrating that Coup or had the people in Iran been aware of Kermit Roosevelts meddling in the Coup in Iran, I am going to suggest those Coups would have failed.
The CIA and the Government of the United States of America have EARNED the reputation for meddling and sponsoring Coups that the peoples of the World accuse it of.
If this the one and only occassion they have their hands clean (a premise I find absurd) Then they only have themselves to blame.
Keep Correa out or helicpters and airplanes. They have a nasty habit of crashing when boarded by leaders of the left.
The real issue is the billion dollar suit involving the indigenous peoples of the Amazon against Chevron and company. Read Tales of an Economic Hit Man for more on this.
Speaking of the gringo goon squad, does Mightymite have the day off today?
I am an honorary member of the socialist gringos for the incarceration, defenestration and emasculation by castration of all male members of the gringo goon squad. For the females, we'll just eliminate their pension and wages (they are, after all, just doing it for the money).
Harry Truman was such an ignorant fool.
Welcome aboard. Our eclectic, quixotic cause may be hopeless but you never know. These days it is a sin to remain silent while these corporate goons run wild.
Thanks for speaking your mind. More people are waking up because of those, like you, who hunger and thirst for justice. There was an old Roman saying that I love:
Justice, though the heavens fall!
Hang in there, friend.
Al-CIA-da is busy in Ecuador. The book about the hitman for the IMF talks about the jackals who are called in when leaders don't 'play ball'.
Remember those fellers who went down to "do the job" in Chile September 11, 1973?
They were CIA.
Same modus operandi. I hope it doesn't work this time.
Let us hope, for the sake of humanity, that the average CIA employee's IQ is on a par with their required level of morality. They do a lot of recruiting on cognitively challenged individuals (Hello Bushy) at amoral universities like Yale.
I won't say more about their recruiting efforts where I live because I'll probably get thrown off this site again.
Hang in there. Esos comemierda maricones en el cia se merecen lo peor.
true. Perhaps I should have limited the epithet to some other pejorative term like pendejo or cabrones but I used that term because I have actually witnessed gays use the term as an insult. I can see where gays could get bent out of shape by seeing it here, though. I stand corrected.
We are for democracy unless people who don't serve our interests get elected. Have we accused Correa of having "weapons of mass destruction"?
We are for democracy unless people who don't serve our interests get elected. Have we accused Correa of having "weapons of mass destruction"?
Note the date of this short article:
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Will the CIA Kill or Oust Ecuador’s President?
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa may not be long for this world, both in a political sense and in genuine life-or-death sense. He recently fired his defense minister, army chief of intelligence, and commanders of the army, air force, and joint chiefs.
Why might those firings cost Correa his job or even his life? Because the reason he fired them was that Ecuador’s intelligence systems were “totally infiltrated and subjugated to the CIA.” As other rulers around the world, including democratically elected ones, have learned the hard way, bucking the CIA is a real no-no that sometimes leads to coups and assassinations.
What’s the CIA doing infiltrating Ecuador’s military intelligence systems? Good question! Maybe it’s because the CIA still fears the threat of communism. Don’t forget that that was the apparent rationale for the U.S. government’s support of Operation Condor, the campaign of assassination and torture co-sponsored by the brutal regimes in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru during the 1970s. Don’t forget also that many of the brutal military personnel in those regimes received their training at the U.S. Army’s infamous School of the Americas, famous for, among other things, its torture manuals.
To make matters worse for Correa, he promises to throw the U.S. military out of his country when the U.S. government’s lease at its base in Manta expires in 2009. The U.S. government spent $60 million to build the base in 1999, securing a 10-year lease that provided no rent to be paid to Ecuador.
So, why does the U.S. military have a $60 million military base in Ecuador? The base is part of the U.S. government’s much-vaunted 30-year-old war on drugs, one of the U.S. Empire’s never-ending wars around the world. The base houses Awacs surveillance planes whose purported mission is to search for international drug smugglers.
What irked President Correa is that apparently his CIA-infested intelligence services fed classified information to Colombian officials that led to a Colombian military attack on a Colombian rebel camp that was located inside Ecuador. One big problem was that when Correa’s intelligence services leaked the information to Colombia, they left Correa (their boss) out of the loop.
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http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2008-04-22.asp
Does anyone know of a reliable English langauge source for news with more details of events in Ecuador?
Go here:
http://watchingamerica.com/News/
Scroll down for multiple sources with auto-translations.
I have come to find Al Giordano's Narconews to be a good alternative source on Latin American politics. http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/
Also, Venezuela Analysis: http://venezuelanalysis.com/
From Cuba, you can get the official government views at Granma: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
A trustworthy blogger located in Venezuela is Eva Golinger: http://www.chavezcode.com/
Democracy NOW will also have good coverage: http://www.democracynow.org/
The Wall Street Journal has a good one about the 'coup'.
The author, O'grady, cites on-the-ground accounts which corroborate those of my friends in Ecuador. Many have have written and told me over the phone that the news has been steered too easily towards portraying the favored international-conspiracy-theory.
just do a search for " ogrady ecuador coup " and the WSJ article will come up.
Willie
the RULE should be:
it is a virtual Impossibility that
destabilization in ANY country that crosses AMERICAN POLICY
is not linked to American Actions.
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QUOTES BELOW from JOHN PERKINS, Former CIA "economic hitman" - he worked for decades in south america, middle east, africa and Southeast Asia, as well as europe...and was a chief Economist for the CIA and state department.
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John Perkins QUOTES / QUOTATIONS
And if I hadn't lived this life as an economic hit man, I think I'd have a hard time believing that anybody does these things.
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.
But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.
Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. (on Kermit Roosevelt Masterminding the overthrow of IRAN democracy in the 1950's)
House of Saud would agree to maintain the price of oil within acceptable limits to us, which they've done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the House of Saud in power as long as they did this, which we've done, which is one of the reasons we went to war with Iraq in the first place.
I believe the World Bank and other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world. Help - genuinely help poor people. There are twenty-four thousand people starving to death every day. We can change that.
I come from a very old New England family, Calvinist, steeped in amazingly strong moral values. I think I, you know, I'm a good person overall, and I think my story really shows how this system and these powerful drugs of sex, money and power can seduce people, because I certainly was seduced.
I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.
I knew the jackals were closing in on him (Torillos) , and the next thing, his plane exploded with a tape recorder with a bomb in it.
I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I was chief economist. I was doing things that Robert McNamara liked and so on.
JOHN PERKINS, Former CIA "economic hitman" -- quotes continued
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I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
I worked very, very closely with the World Bank. The World Bank provides most of the money that's used by economic hit men, it and the I.M.F.
Officially, I was a chief economist. We called ourselves e.h.m.'s. It was tongue-in-cheek. It was like, nobody will believe us if we say this, you know? And, so, we went to Saudi Arabia in the early seventies.
Saddam Hussein's bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn't get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent in to die and kill, which is what we've obviously done in Iraq.
So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.
The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.
The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn't possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can't do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel.
The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done.
There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.
These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
Torrijos talked to them about this which very much upset Bechtel Corporation, whose president was George Schultz and senior council was Casper Weinberger.
We knew Saudi Arabia was the key to dropping our dependency, or to controlling the situation. And we worked out this deal whereby the Royal House of Saud agreed to send most of their petro-dollars back to the United States and invest them in U.S. government securities.
We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
Our Foreign Policy is Designed to Render Weaker Nations PERMANENTLY subjugated to our Will and the WIll of our Chamber of Commerce.
(these are direct quotes)
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GENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER , US MARINES, 1933:
"OUR FOREIGN Policy has always been geared towards gathering as much of the world's resources unto ourselves at the expense of others. the True Purpose of our Armed Forces is to Make the world Safe for Our BIG BOSS: our supernationalistic Capitalism and our Cultural and Economic Assault. I participated in the overthrow of uncooperative governments in a Dozen South American countries..I led the way to making China (pre-communist) SAFE for our Big Oil so that they could run Unmolested...I made sure that the dominican republic and Haiti were pacified so our big banks could go in an take over the economy...Al Capone has nothing on me...he only had rackets in a few american cities...MINE was in THREE CONTINENTS...
I was, you might say, the Chief High Class Muscleman for our Big Money, Big Finance, Big Banks, Big Corporations in our Money and War Racket...all serving our Big Boss...our supernationalistic Capitalism.
We are a Nation of War and Money racketeers...what we do is EVIL".
From New York Times:
Leaders from across the hemisphere expressed support for Mr. Correa, 47. The White House expressed support for Mr. Correa and urged a peaceful end to the crisis. “The United States deplores violence and lawlessness and we express our full support for President Rafael Correa, and for the institutions of democratic government in that country,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a statement.
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GIVE HILLARY CLINTON THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT....but make sure you roll your eyes........
the USA "gives full support for the institutions of democratic government".......hmmmmm...that is VERY UNCHARACTERISTIC of the USA.......
In the words of the late Pat Paulson:
Ahead of us lies the future behind us lies .... lies .... lies.
The Real News Network covers the events in Ecuador yesterday as a (probably) failed coup attempt:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/28pac35
Not that my opinion matters, but I add my voice to those who say that this couldn't be anything but an american multinational military corporate complex, with emphasis on the oil industry, backed attempt at military takeover for the purpose of replacing a popular leader with a puppet.
Correa's pre-emptive talk with the police most likely saved him self from a completed coup by drawing out the rage of one of the players to act early, before the date that had been set, which was most likely 10/1/10, not 9/30/10.
The Neo-Cons just LOVE simple dates to do their dirty work ...dates they can remember.
Interesting to see the Great Satans USAID and NED 'spooks' slink into the jungle enpty handed after failing to over-throw Ecuadors president Correa for the US/CIA goons.
Ever since the 'death squads president' Alvaro Uribe, CIA, and U.S. military's Black-Ops commando's violated Ecuadors sovereignty by invading sovereign Ecuador and trying to up-end the FARC 'freedom fighters' hiding there that have worked so hard to over-throw the Colombian presidency and its military's 'death squads' and the subsequent 'kicking out' of the US military drug interdiction troops (DBA: Interferring with Latina American countries that have, for the most part, broken the shackel's once kept tightly locked by the US), out of Manta AFB, to the chagrin of the Bush reichwing mafia - all has not been well between the US and Ecuador and this latest coup attempt (Hello Honduras!) only show's that the US will not be giving up easily any time soon (As the US 4th fleet is getting refurbished and the smoke continues raising from Ecuadors political scene (last year it was Bolivia and president Evo Morales, 'giving the boot' to US Ambassador Goldberg and his NED/USAID 'spooks' that were fomenting trouble by arming the obgliarchs 'goons' against the Bolivian president) as he did in Kosovo, where the rape of Kosovo from Serbia - was his (Goldbergs) baby, remember folks?).
The recent cancellation by the new Colombian government of Uribe's 'unlawfull' signed agreement authorizing US access to 7 Colombian military bases (One a 'spit' away from a Venezuelan military base in the northern 'Orinco' province of Venezuela), the US has been 'festering' for a fight, to the chagrin of Alvaro Uribe who no longer has a say in the matter (And currently very busy 'running cover' for the Jewish killers that attacked the Mavi Malvara, as a member of the UN commission, setup (sigh) to investigate Jewish terror in the high seas - Good luck Turkey!
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Tombstone, AZ.