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Ecuador: Correa not attending Summit of the Americas

3 April 2012

The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, in a letter addressed on 2 April 2012 to his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos, said that he will not be attending the 6th Summit of the Americas in Cartagena de Indias on April 14 and 15 because of Cuba’s impossibility to attend the meeting.
As (…)

The Ecuadorian Coup: Its Larger Meaning

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 18 October 2010

The debate over the nature of the recent turmoil in Ecuador is still kindling. A comprehensive analysis of the 30 September events is offered by Prof. James Petras, according to whom it was a coup in every respect, converging with the U.S. strategy of isolating Venezuela by targeting the (…)

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Obama administration fingerprints on Ecuador coup attempt

by Wayne Madsen

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 3 October 2010

With Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama, coups against unaccommodating Latin American leaders would appear to be back in style. After Honduran President Zalaya’s overthrow in June 2009, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa was the latest target. An outspoken member of ALBA and Hugo Chávez close ally, (…)

Quito’s Police: CIA breeding ground

by Jean Guy Allard

Havana (Cuba) | 2 October 2010

The uprising by putschist elements of the Ecuadoran police against President Rafael Correa confirms an alarming report about the infiltration of the Ecuadoran police by U.S. intelligence services released in 2008, which indicated that many members of the police corps developed a “dependency” on (…)

Ecuadorian crisis: Chávez urges the US "to keep its imperialist hands" out of the region

2 October 2010

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said that the Unites States “provides million dollars to far-right wing movements to destabilize the governments of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA)”.
"We must demand the US government to keep its old imperialist hands out of this continent," (…)

Fidel Castro Meets With Ecuadorian VP

Havana (Cuba) | 22 October 2009

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, held a fraternal meeting with Lenín Moreno Garces, Vice President of Ecuador, reported Granma newspaper.

Latin America’s Twenty-First Century Socialism in Historical Perspective

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 11 October 2009

The electoral victory of center left regimes in at least three Latin American countries, and the search for a new ideological identity to justify their rule, led ideologues and the incumbent presidents to embrace the notion that they represent a new 21st century version of socialism (21cs). (…)

Ecuador to sue WSJ over FARC allegations

28 June 2009

President Rafael Correa with Ingrid Betancourt, held hostage for 6 years by Farc guerrillas (2002-2008).
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has vowed to sue the Wall Street Journal for linking his government to the Colombian FARC rebels.
"We will sue this newspaper because we are sick of (…)

Venezuela to Build New Refinery in Ecuador

Caracas (Venezuela) | 5 June 2006

In a series of agreements signed between Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and Ecuador’s President Alfredo Palacio, Venezuela agreed to help Ecuador construct a new refinery and to expand an existing one, among other energy-related issues.

General René Vargas Pazzos : “The United States has monopolized power and encourages its great companies to see themselves as a conquering army”

Brussels (Belgium) | 24 November 2005

Ecuadorean General René Vargas Pazzos delivered his speech at the International Conference Axis for Peace, held in Brussels on November 17 and 18, 2005 by Voltaire Network and he made an analysis of the international situation. “During the Cold War, the United States supported Latin American (…)

Alexis Ponce: “The Mossad trained the Ecuadorean police in torture techniques”

Brussels (Belgium) | 24 November 2005

“The Mossad trained the Ecuadorean police in torture techniques between 1986 and 1994,” said Alexis Ponce during the Axis for Peace international conference, organized by Voltaire Network on November 17-18, 2005, in Brussels. “The Israeli secret services gave technical support to the tyranny (…)

Popular rage overthrows Ecuadorian President

The rebellion of Quito

by Marcelo Larrea

8 May 2005

Lucio Gutierrez was overthrown by the volcanic though peaceful popular uprising of Quito. The suspension of the Supreme Court could not stop the massive demonstrations which defeated its brutal repression. Even when Vice President Palacios assumed the presidency, the people still demanded their (…)

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