Ecuador in the claws of the empire of chaos

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TWO REPORTS ON THIS IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT

Correa supporters protect the Carondelet palace, July 2. Photo: Tamara Pearson

In  Ecuador,  Stop  Those  Who  Are Committing  Treason!

ANDRE VLTCHEK

 I left Ecuador almost two weeks ago. And I was in terrible pain. How can people tolerate those clowns from the “opposition”? Don’t they see that this is the same clique that is destabilizing the world on behalf of the Empire? I described them in my two latest books: they do the same things in Ukraine and Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba, Eritrea!
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In the short time that I spent in Ecuador, I managed to drive to Riobamba, fly to Cuenca and travel by land to Ingapirca. I visited humble indigenous villages and grand theatres and cultural centers of Quito.
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I can testify that Ecuador changed! I still remember how it used to be: poor humiliated and robbed, in the 1990’s, when I was based in this part of the world, writing about Peruvian “Dirty War” just across the border.
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And later, still totally messed up, right before Correa came to power. I remember depressing, dirty, hopeless roads of Guayaquil. I remember desperate people living on the streets of Quito: some sick, some very sick, receiving no help from the state. I remember children begging, and adult beggars exposing their scars and wounds.
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The ‘elites’ of Ecuador were robbing their own countrymen. There was one government after another falling: imbeciles, bandits, and thugs! One worse than another…

President Correa

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Now look around: isn’t it obvious what tremendous progress Ecuador register under this administration? I can hardly recognize Quito. I can hardly recognize the countryside!
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Hospitals, schools, electricity, potable water, sanitation, clean streets, wide sidewalks, public transportation, new roads and airports, cultural institutions, playgrounds for children, brand new libraries! All in such a short time! What else can be done in a few years? How much more can be demanded?
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In a small town of Tanicuchi, villagers told me that they don’t want to pay taxes. Great! But they enjoy new infrastructure. They complain that they have to wait when they are getting free medical care. Well, they have to wait everywhere, even in Europe, don’t they? And things cannot become ideal, perfect, in just a few years.
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The ‘opposition’ is attacking this administration, and there are rumors that they will soon try to destabilize entire Ecuador, to “get rid of Correa”, as I was openly told by one of them – by a black-shirted “protester” near a shopping mall. And what will they offer if the succeed? Corruption and more corruption! Not that ‘mild corruption’ that is unfortunately common in almost all societies, even in the most progressive ones. They will corrupt everything, as they used to in the past: natural resources, education, and foreign loans!
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It will be the same gang of people that was ruling Ecuador; the same morally corrupt pack as in Peru, as in Bolivia before Evo and in Venezuela before Chavez! People, do you really want them back in power?! Do you want their Hummers, their gated communities and private religious schools to guide Ecuador morally? They have nothing to offer, nothing to give. They only take. And they do not serve the people of South America; they only serve the interests of the West, of the Empire, and of their own deep pockets.
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Here, this is my latest, big report on Ecuador. I wrote it there, and I will write it again and again: ‘elites’ in Latin America are committing treason! They are siding with Washington, Madrid, London, and multi-nationals, against their own fellow citizens. They are plotting coups; creating shortages, and use their right-wing media as propaganda tools.
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President Allende of Chile made one decisive mistake in 1973: he knew that the coup was coming, but he refused to act. Why? They say it is because he was ‘true democrat’: he did not want to arrest people on assumption that they will commit despicable crimes. . But his adversaries were beasts! Result was predictable: he was killed, and so were thousands of Chilean people. Democracy was killed, too. Women were raped. Tens of thousands were tortured.
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Do you think it will be any better now, if the extreme-right comes back to power in Venezuela or Ecuador?

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Citizens of Ecuador, of Venezuela and of all socialist countries of Latin America have to defend their revolution; in the name of true freedom, and in the name of the majority which was deprived and humiliated for long decades and centuries. It has to be done by reason or by force. Treason should not be tolerated. Whenever it is, thousands of innocent people die, and lives of millions get thoroughly destroyed! 3 July, Manaus, Brazil   Correa supporters protect the Carondelet palace, July 2. Photo: Tamara Pearson

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US-Orchestrated Coup Attempt in Ecuador

Stephen Lendman

Washington wants all independent governments toppled – regime change by US-orchestrated color revolutions, coups or naked aggression.

Ecuador is in the eye of the storm. Obama’s earlier 2010 attempt to forcibly unseat popular President Rafael Correa failed. 

He’s trying again. Ecuadorean democracy is being attacked. Since early June, US-orchestrated right-wing protests (mainly in Quito and Guayaquil) erupted. They continue at times violently to replace Correa with fascist rule.

They began on the pretext of announced higher inheritance and capital gains taxes affecting about 2% of the population – the Law to Redistribute the Wealth now being debated after Correa halted its implementation to make rich Ecuadorians pay more along with creating more social enterprises, collectives and cooperatives. 

Protest leaders want Correa forcibly ousted. Interior Minister Jose Serrano revealed a plot to storm the presidential palace, block airports and bridges on the Colombian and Peruvian borders, as well as attack security forces.

Serrano said opposition lawmakers Andres Paez and Lourdes Tiban conspired with former Col. Mario Pazmino to instigate violence and chaos during protests.

Pazmino was former army military intelligence head – “very close to the CIA,” according to Correa. In 2008, he was sacked for colluding with Colombia’s bombing of Ecuador.

The coup plotters’ plan involved advancing from north and south to converge around Quito’s presidential palace – intending to occupy it forcibly.

“They planned to use pointed sticks to break police shields, throw balloons filled with paint for police to lose visibility, pepper-spray police horses and dogs” to scare and scatter them, Serrano explained.

They intended publishing letters in two national newspapers – El Universo and La Hora – as well as anti-government letters to Pope Francis to undermine his forthcoming visit, an American tour beginning in Ecuador on July 5 followed by Bolivia, Paraguay, Cuba and the United States.

Serrano said “if they were not able to seize power, (they) would have created national chaos” to force Pope Francis to cancel his visit, as well as “maintain…indefinite protest(s).”

Correa commented on “clear evidence of a plot meant to take over the (presidential) palace. They want to defeat violently a government internationally and domestically supported,” he explained.

They’ll be defeated like September 30, 2010 plotters (called 30S) “peacefully but firmly,” Correa said. “We are more, many more,” he stressed.

On Thursday, violent clashes erupted. Right-wing extremists attacked Ecuadorean police near Quito’s presidential palace. Their plan to breach their lines failed. Four officers sustained injuries.

Journalists were attacked. Culture Minister Guillaume Long said “(t)oday we are facing (a) real threat of destabilization. It is fundamental (for) the people of Ecuador to come here and (defend) democracy. We’re not going to allow more coups.”

Thousands of Correa supporters rallied Thursday night to defend their government in Quito’s Independence Plaza, its main square (the Carondolet). 

Correa addressed them saying “(w)e are ready to defend the revolution against coup plotters. We will remain firm in defending the revolution against the ultra-right.”

“(M)obilizations to tire us out…to prevent us from governing (won’t) work. We are willing to defend our history and our citizen’s revolution. Here we have democracy. Here the majority rule and the past will never return.” 

Washington wants Correa’s government replaced by a regime it controls, neo-colonial rule most Ecuadoreans oppose – following the pattern of earlier failed Venezuelan protests. 

So far, popular support for Correa prevails. At the same time, dark forces headquartered in Washington never end their dirty game for unchallenged global dominance – a plot to create unfit to live in ruler-serf societies worldwide.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. 

His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”

http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. 

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