Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa is facing the most important challenge yet to his self-styled “Citizens’ Revolution”.
A range of indigenous groups, trade unions and leftist parties mobilised across the country on August 13. Their long list of demands included calls for land reform, opposition to (...)
President Raphael Correa of Ecuador has decided that the arrogance of Chevron and Occidental Petroleum has gone far enough. These two North American oil companies are pursuing the Ecuadorian government by all the means possible in order to achieve international court rulings that sovereign (...)
THOUSANDS OF INDIGENOUS protesters carrying a giant rainbow flag arrived in Ecuador’s capital Quito on March 22 (World Water Day), culminating a two-week Plurinational March for Life, Water, and Dignity of the Peoples. The march was in opposition to government plans to commence with large-scale (...)
A Labour Star Campaign in partnership with Public Services International, the global union federation for public sector trade unions, representing 650 affiliated trade unions in 150 countries, which together organise more than 20 million workers. On 28 October, Ecuador’s Minister for Labour (...)
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Unequivocally Supports President Correa and the Democratic Citizen Revolution in Ecuador and condemns the Attempted Coup
On the eve of the last day in September, President Correa had been rescued from the hospital where renegade police held him hostage. He (...)
This was a coup attempt – encouraged by Washington’s shameful support for the overthrow of Manuel Zelaya last year.
In June of last year, when the Honduran military overthrew the social-democratic government of Manuel Zelaya, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador took it personally. “We have (...)
1. What happened yesterday in Ecuador?
There was an attempted coup d’etat.
It was not, as various Latin America media reported, an “institutional crisis”, as if what happened had been a jurisdictional conflict between the executive and the legislature rather than an open insurrection by one (...)
Communiqué of the Assembly of Popular and Diverse Women of Ecuador – Casa Feminista de Rosa
No to the Coup d’Etat!
The women grouped together in the Assembly of Popular and Diverse Women of Ecuador reject all attempts of a coup d’etat wherever they come from. After Latin America passed through (...)
The World March of Women manifests profound indignation and disgust at the coup d’etat attempt that began in Equador this morning.
In the same way that right-wing sectors carried out a coup d’etat in Honduras, they are trying to do the same in Equador. Reactionary and convervative forces do not (...)
CADTM denounces the attempted coup in Ecuador and supports popular mobilization to defend democratic and social progress.
On Thursday 30 September an attempted coup took place in Ecuador. Rebel units of the national police abducted president Rafael Correa after he urged policemen to accept (...)
Throughout the day on September 30th there have been a series of serious events in Ecuador that clearly indicate an attempted coup to overthrow the government of Correa through violent action by elements of the police force, who detained Correa himself for several hours, until he was freed by (...)
The kidnapping by police of Ecuador’s leftist president demands urgent attention. It is currently hard to understand the real dimensions of what is happening, but it is difficult to imagine that this is just a local gripe by some of the police. 150 troops seized Quito’s international airport. (...)
I met up with Luis Macas in his office at the Instituto Científico de Culturas Indígenas (Scientific Institute of Indigenous Cultures, ICCI) in Quito, on July 14, 2010. Macas, arguably the most renowned indigenous leader in Ecuador, was born in 1951 in Saraguro, in the Province of Loja. A lawyer (...)
On July 5, I sat down with Marlon Santi, President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) , in his office in Quito. We discussed the increasing contradictions between the demands of the indigenous movement, on the one hand, around water rights and anti-mining (...)
QUITO, Jun 2 (IPS) - Friday, Jun. 4, marks 20 years since the first great indigenous uprising in modern Ecuador, an event that forever changed the country. After that day of massive actions in cities across the nation, Ecuador’s native peoples could no longer be ignored. It was a pioneering (...)
ON APRIL 26, 2009, Rafael Correa won re-election to the Ecuadorian presidency with an absolute majority of the vote. He gained broad popular appeal through a combination of nationalist rhetoric and increased social spending on education and health care. The victory cemented Correa’s control over (...)
In the general elections held on Sunday 26 April, Ecuadorians granted their president Rafael Correa a new four-year mandate. He took over 52% of the votes, placing him more than 20 points ahead of Lucio Gutierrez, his main opponent, the former right-wing president who was overthrown by a (...)
The CAIC - Comisión para la Auditoria Integral de la Deuda Pública – held an intensive two-week work session from the 10th to 23rd February 2008. 10 Ecuadorian members and the 6 foreign members of the CAIC worked hard to advance the ongoing audit of the debt. The programme for these two weeks (...)
“We have won an historic victory,” proclaimed President Rafael Correa of Ecuador. On Sunday the political coalition he heads won an overwhelming majority of the seats in the Constituent Assembly that is tasked with “refounding” the nation’s institutions. Taking office early this year in a land slide (...)
Within less than a year Rafael Correa has won four election battles (the two rounds of the presidential elections at the end of 2006, a referendum on the election of a constituant assembly in April 2007, and elections of the constituent assembly members on 30 September 2007).
While all (...)
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