SIMPLE RIOT POLICE, right-wing assault ALBA WITH SUPPORT FROM U.S. OR INSURRECTION PEOPLE AGAINST an authoritarian president
More than 48 hours after the military operation that freed the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, who was kidnapped by police mutineers police hospital in Quito, debate continues if what happened on Thursday in the Andean country was or was not an attempted coup. One question that surprising in a country like few in recent history is about as qualified to recognize a coup.
The articles that follow, the assumptions in the air even .
The right to attack ALBA
For Booksellers Eva Golinger
organizations funded by USAID and NED demanding the resignation of President Correa in support of the coup State promoted by sectors of the Ecuadorian police, deeply penetrated by the United States.
A new coup attempt against a country the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of our America (ALBA) threatens Latin American integration and advancement of the process of democratic revolution. The right is to attack. His success in 2009 in Honduras against the government of Manuel Zelaya, filled it with energy, strength and confidence to strike out the peoples and governments of revolution in Latin America.
Sunday's elections in Venezuela September 26, but were victorious mainly to the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), gave space to the most reactionary and dangerous forces of destabilization that they serve imperial interests. United States succeeded in placing key parts of Venezuela National Assembly, giving them a platform to advance their conspiratorial schemes to undermine democracy in Venezuela.
The day after the elections in Venezuela, the leader for peace in Colombia Piedad Cordes was disabled as a Senator of the Republic of Colombia for the National Office, based on false allegations and evidence. But the attack against Senator Piedad, symbolizes an attack against the forces of progress in Colombia looking for true and peaceful solutions to conflict of war who have lived for over 60 years.
And now, the Thursday, September 30, Ecuador suddenly dawned. Unruly police took several facilities in the capital of Quito, creating chaos and panic in the country. Allegedly protesting against a new law passed by the National Assembly on Wednesday, which they trimmed their employee benefits.
President Rafael Correa, in an attempt to resolve the situation, spoke to police unruly, but was attacked by sharp objects and bombs lagrimógenas, causing a leg injury and asphyxiation by gas. He was transferred to military hospital in the city of Quito, where he was later kidnapped and kept in force can not leave.
Meanwhile, popular movements took the streets of Quito demanding the release of its president, democratically reelected last year with an overwhelming majority. Thousands of Ecuadorians raised their voices in support of President Correa, trying to save their democracy from the hands of coup forces seeking to provoke the forced departure of the national government.
Although the events are in full swing and President Correa is kidnapped by the police coup, there are external factors involved in this coup attempt that move their pieces again. POLICE
INFILTRATED
According to journalist Jean-Guy Allard, an official report by Ecuador's defense minister, Javier Ponce, released in October 2008 revealed "that U.S. diplomats were involved in corrupting the police and armed forces."
The report said police units "maintain an informal economic dependence on the United States for the payment of informants, training, equipment and operations."
In response to information, the U.S. ambassador to Ecuador, Heather Hodges, said "We work with the government of Ecuador, with the military and police very important for purposes of security ", justifying the collaboration. According to Hodges, working with the security forces of Ecuador is related to the "fight against drug trafficking." AMBASSADOR
And now, the Thursday, September 30, Ecuador suddenly dawned. Unruly police took several facilities in the capital of Quito, creating chaos and panic in the country. Allegedly protesting against a new law passed by the National Assembly on Wednesday, which they trimmed their employee benefits.
President Rafael Correa, in an attempt to resolve the situation, spoke to police unruly, but was attacked by sharp objects and bombs lagrimógenas, causing a leg injury and asphyxiation by gas. He was transferred to military hospital in the city of Quito, where he was later kidnapped and kept in force can not leave.
Meanwhile, popular movements took the streets of Quito demanding the release of its president, democratically reelected last year with an overwhelming majority. Thousands of Ecuadorians raised their voices in support of President Correa, trying to save their democracy from the hands of coup forces seeking to provoke the forced departure of the national government.
Although the events are in full swing and President Correa is kidnapped by the police coup, there are external factors involved in this coup attempt that move their pieces again. POLICE
INFILTRATED
According to journalist Jean-Guy Allard, an official report by Ecuador's defense minister, Javier Ponce, released in October 2008 revealed "that U.S. diplomats were involved in corrupting the police and armed forces."
The report said police units "maintain an informal economic dependence on the United States for the payment of informants, training, equipment and operations."
In response to information, the U.S. ambassador to Ecuador, Heather Hodges, said "We work with the government of Ecuador, with the military and police very important for purposes of security ", justifying the collaboration. According to Hodges, working with the security forces of Ecuador is related to the "fight against drug trafficking." AMBASSADOR
Ambassador Heather Hodges was sent to Ecuador in 2008 by then-President George W. Bush. Previously, he had a successful term as ambassador Moldalvia, socialist country that was formerly part of the Soviet Union. Sown in Moldova left the track for a "color revolution" that occurred without success in April 2009 against the Communist Party elected majority in parliament.
Hodges was head of the Office of Cuban Affairs, as Deputy Director in 1991, the State Department division that is dedicated to promoting destabilization in Cuba. Two years later he was sent to Nicaragua to consolidate the management of Violeta Chamorro, president selected by the United States after the dirty war against the government Sandista who managed his ouster in 1989.
When Bush sent to Ecuador, was intended to sow destabilization against Correa, in the case of Ecuador's president refused to bow to Washington's agenda. Hodges was able to increase budget of the USAID and NED for social organizations and political groups that promote U.S. interests, including in the indigenous sector.
face re-election of President Correa in 2009, based on the new constitution approved in 2008 by an overwhelming majority of Ecuadorians, the embassy began to foment destabilization. USAID
Some progressive social groups have expressed dissatisfaction with government policies Correa. No doubt there are legitimate complaints and grievances to the government. Not all groups or organizations that are against Correa's policies are imperial agents. But sector exists within them that receive funding and guidelines to lead to situations of destabilization in the country, beyond the natural expression of criticism or opposition to a government.
In 2010, the State Department increased the budget of USAID in Ecuador more than $ 38 million. In recent years, a total of $ 5,640,000 in funds invested in the work of "decentralization" in the country. One of the main implementers of USAID programs in Ecuador is the same company that operates with the right in Bolivia: Chemonics, Inc. At the same time, the NED awarded a $ 125,806 agreement the Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) to promote free trade, globalization and regional autonomy through radio, television and newspapers in Ecuador, together with the Ecuadorian Institute of Political Economy.
Organizations Citizen Participation in Ecuador and Pro-Justice has provided funding from USAID and NED, both as members and sectors of CODEMPE, Pachakutik, CONAIE, Indigenous Enterprise Corporation of Ecuador and Qellkaj Foundation.
During the events of Thursday 30 September in Ecuador, one of the groups in sectors financed by USAID and NED, Pachakutik, issued a statement endorsing the coup police, demanding the resignation of President Rafael Correa and be responsible for the facts. Even accused him of maintaining a "dictatorial attitude"
Pachakutik
CALLS FOR RESIGNATION TO PRESIDENT CALLS FOR FORMING BELT AND ONE NATIONAL FRONT
News Release 141
Hodges was head of the Office of Cuban Affairs, as Deputy Director in 1991, the State Department division that is dedicated to promoting destabilization in Cuba. Two years later he was sent to Nicaragua to consolidate the management of Violeta Chamorro, president selected by the United States after the dirty war against the government Sandista who managed his ouster in 1989.
When Bush sent to Ecuador, was intended to sow destabilization against Correa, in the case of Ecuador's president refused to bow to Washington's agenda. Hodges was able to increase budget of the USAID and NED for social organizations and political groups that promote U.S. interests, including in the indigenous sector.
face re-election of President Correa in 2009, based on the new constitution approved in 2008 by an overwhelming majority of Ecuadorians, the embassy began to foment destabilization. USAID
Some progressive social groups have expressed dissatisfaction with government policies Correa. No doubt there are legitimate complaints and grievances to the government. Not all groups or organizations that are against Correa's policies are imperial agents. But sector exists within them that receive funding and guidelines to lead to situations of destabilization in the country, beyond the natural expression of criticism or opposition to a government.
In 2010, the State Department increased the budget of USAID in Ecuador more than $ 38 million. In recent years, a total of $ 5,640,000 in funds invested in the work of "decentralization" in the country. One of the main implementers of USAID programs in Ecuador is the same company that operates with the right in Bolivia: Chemonics, Inc. At the same time, the NED awarded a $ 125,806 agreement the Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) to promote free trade, globalization and regional autonomy through radio, television and newspapers in Ecuador, together with the Ecuadorian Institute of Political Economy.
Organizations Citizen Participation in Ecuador and Pro-Justice has provided funding from USAID and NED, both as members and sectors of CODEMPE, Pachakutik, CONAIE, Indigenous Enterprise Corporation of Ecuador and Qellkaj Foundation.
During the events of Thursday 30 September in Ecuador, one of the groups in sectors financed by USAID and NED, Pachakutik, issued a statement endorsing the coup police, demanding the resignation of President Rafael Correa and be responsible for the facts. Even accused him of maintaining a "dictatorial attitude"
Pachakutik
CALLS FOR RESIGNATION TO PRESIDENT CALLS FOR FORMING BELT AND ONE NATIONAL FRONT
News Release 141
The Block Head Pachakutik, Clever Jiménez, given the serious internal crisis and political turmoil generated by the dictatorial attitude of President Rafael Correa, to violate the rights of public servants and society as a whole, called the indigenous movement, social movements, organizations democratic politics, to form a single national front to demand the ouster of President Correa, under which establishes the Art 130, paragraph 2 of the Constitution which states: "The National Assembly may remove the President of the Republic in the following cases: 2) The serious political crisis and internal turmoil. " Jiménez
supported the struggle of the country's public servants, including police troops who have been protesting against the regime's authoritarian policies intended to violate labor rights acquired. The situation of the officers and members of the armed forces must be understood as a just action public servants, whose rights have been violated.
Pachakutik is calling for this afternoon to all organized or sponsored the indigenous movement, workers, democratic men and women to build unity and develop new actions in Correa's rejection of authoritarianism, in defense of the rights and guarantees of all Ecuadorians . Press Officer
BLOCK Pachakutik
The script used in Venezuela and Honduras is repeated again. They try to blame the President and the government for the "hit", then forcing his ouster. The coup against Ecuador is the next phase of the permanent aggression against ALBA and revolutionary movements in the region.
The Ecuadorian people remains mobilized in rejection of the attempted coup, while the progressive forces in the region have gathered to express their solidarity and support for President Correa and his government.
supported the struggle of the country's public servants, including police troops who have been protesting against the regime's authoritarian policies intended to violate labor rights acquired. The situation of the officers and members of the armed forces must be understood as a just action public servants, whose rights have been violated.
Pachakutik is calling for this afternoon to all organized or sponsored the indigenous movement, workers, democratic men and women to build unity and develop new actions in Correa's rejection of authoritarianism, in defense of the rights and guarantees of all Ecuadorians . Press Officer
BLOCK Pachakutik
The script used in Venezuela and Honduras is repeated again. They try to blame the President and the government for the "hit", then forcing his ouster. The coup against Ecuador is the next phase of the permanent aggression against ALBA and revolutionary movements in the region.
The Ecuadorian people remains mobilized in rejection of the attempted coup, while the progressive forces in the region have gathered to express their solidarity and support for President Correa and his government.
mutiny or attempted coup "?
By Gonzalo Ortiz-IPS
Analysts are debating whether what happened on Thursday in Ecuador was a coup attempt or just a riot police, backed by air force troops in protest approval of a law which is rooted benefit cuts in the tradition of the military.
coup's statement was echoed by the government of Rafael Correa, television and radio stations that broadcast chain required as part of the declaration of state of emergency in the country, international news agencies and as such was doomed by the leaders of Latin America and elsewhere. Correa
directly accused the former President Lucio Gutiérrez (2003-2005) have infiltrated the police of his people to deceive on the scope of the law in question and thus provoke the uprising. He did against demonstrators in Independence Square in the historical center of Quito, was barely removed from the police hospital, where he was surrounded by rioters effective most of the day.
Gutierrez, whose supporters also were noted to invade the media, has denied that implication, calling the accusation of cowardice Correa.
"The government has done a great favor by Gutierrez, to give so much importance," said a former deputy social IPS Magdalena Chauvet.
"There will be no forgiveness or forgetting" to the police officers involved in this attack on democracy and political leaders, Correa reiterated, but did not mention any other name other than Gutierrez himself.
's eyes outside observers generally follows the line of the possible existence of a plan to create or instigate this burst of soldiers and then culminated in the overthrow of democratic government.
Solve the question seems crucial for the future direction of Ecuador. The concern is not less in a chronically unstable country that due to constant attacks against the institutions had eight presidents in a decade until 2006, when Correa took office the first time. Re-elected in 2009, in elections called by the entry into force of a new constitution. The ruling center-
reinforced the view of the coup in telling that none of the police with he spoke while surrounded in the hospital had read the law was repealed calling. "They had been driven by the psychological war that do Gutierrez, the traitors and conspirators," he said. SALARY AND PRIVILEGES
"What happens is that the flood of people to be police," did increase by more than 10,000 troops from the 40,000 who had until then "could not be funded by the government, with a technocratic approach sought to cut other patronage of the police and military, "he added.
"Today there are nearly 52,000 troops in Ecuador in the police, 39,000 of whom are privates, and 72,644 soldiers, 37,000 of them also privates, and about 20,000 conscripts and candidates," said Ordonez.
bonds between call terminated by the Public Service Act are those of a medium salary and received a one-time non-commissioned officers whenever they stood in rank and range from 3,000, 5,000 and $ 8,000 for senior officers. Also removed the financial incentives they received when they were decorated for their performance.
The law also extends from five to seven years the time required for promotion from one grade to another. "It is true that the race is also lengthened, people see short-term and desperate," he told IPS Jose Caiza, a residential guard and retired police.
"This is the background of the military insurrection, rather than an organized conspiracy," he told IPS Felipe Burbano, professor of political science at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO).
"There is unease in the ranks of the security forces that the government did not evaluate well," he added.
"The incentive system is part of the military institutions, which has been in decades," said Burbridge.
Scholar service quoted the admiral in person Raúl Jaramillo, who said on television Friday that he saw no reason to change the system. "As the old adage, if it is not broke, do not fix it," the official said.
But Burbano said that this insurrection point "tied to a logic destabilizing. "
" As part of the political culture of Ecuador, the opposition always has these lapses destabilizing. Oppose is topple governments. I think that happened yesterday: the protest at headquarters that resulted in destabilizing dynamic, and things got complicated, "he said.
Nick Mills, an American academic who has written books on the political culture of Ecuador, told IPS "are the obstacles that exist in the country's democratic institutions which lead to conflict." The very weak democratic institutions results in a spillover measures to force and not persuasion, "he said.
Forced to stay in the country by the end of the airport, Mills had to witness it live and direct another episode in the turbulent politics in Ecuador.
"It was interesting and sad to see that a conflict point raised by the intemperance of the president and then spread to many police stations and even military and the embarrassment caused to kidnap the president all day," said Mills. VOTES AND vetoes
"The real culprit in all this is the National Assembly (unicameral parliament) and repeated maneuvers to pass laws without debate, to please Correa told IPS columnist Simon Espinosa. "Ruling by imposition eventually generates resistance," he said. Espinosa
referred to in his comment that many times, after months of negotiations in the Assembly, the changes made in the bills are then discarded by Correa, who returns to send them banned items back to his text original.
With no majority, the legislative bloc of the ruling Alianza País left in those cases without a quorum at meetings for discussion of the veto, so that deadlines are met for it to enter into force in fact by what is called "ministry of the law."
However, in the case of the Public Service Act, which involves to all state employees not only the police, the respective project issued in August by the Executive Branch was discussed in two debates.
The Federation of Civil Servants, the Association of Foreign Service Officers, the National Union of Teachers, and many other unions were against and attended the Assembly to be heard.
As a result, the parliament amended the draft and was sent to Correa, who issued four vetoes. So back to the Assembly, which approved it late Wednesday with the acceptance of three of the four presidential vetoes.
who was not approved was a measure to force the "purchase of waiver" bureaucracy, one of the points that had generated more criticism from public officials.
But approvals survived wage items and deletion of bonuses and incentives, to cap career in public service, mandatory retirement, payment in cash bonus and no such pension, and other measures rejected by civil and uniform.
referred to in his comment that many times, after months of negotiations in the Assembly, the changes made in the bills are then discarded by Correa, who returns to send them banned items back to his text original.
With no majority, the legislative bloc of the ruling Alianza País left in those cases without a quorum at meetings for discussion of the veto, so that deadlines are met for it to enter into force in fact by what is called "ministry of the law."
However, in the case of the Public Service Act, which involves to all state employees not only the police, the respective project issued in August by the Executive Branch was discussed in two debates.
The Federation of Civil Servants, the Association of Foreign Service Officers, the National Union of Teachers, and many other unions were against and attended the Assembly to be heard.
As a result, the parliament amended the draft and was sent to Correa, who issued four vetoes. So back to the Assembly, which approved it late Wednesday with the acceptance of three of the four presidential vetoes.
who was not approved was a measure to force the "purchase of waiver" bureaucracy, one of the points that had generated more criticism from public officials.
But approvals survived wage items and deletion of bonuses and incentives, to cap career in public service, mandatory retirement, payment in cash bonus and no such pension, and other measures rejected by civil and uniform.
rightist coup "or seeds of a popular uprising? 
Bolpress Writing (*)
What happened on 30 September in Ecuador? Exploded a "conspiracy" to commit a "coup", defined the President Rafael Correa, was an "attempted coup" against the legitimate government, according Atilio A. Boron; it was another plot of "Yankee imperialism" against ALBA, said in chorus hundreds of leaders, intellectuals and activists of the "XXI century socialism." For CONAIE and other leftist organizations, was a social rebellion against a government increasingly right-wing, authoritarian and anti ...
... The other version is likely
the extensive propaganda and political passion has confused many "analysts" have prevented them from seeing the background of the violent uprising that killed at least six people. Analyzing
cool head, "a rebellion police, allegedly encouraged by the opposition Lucio Gutierrez and a fringe of left-Pachakuti movement without the right support local and U.S. government can be described as" coup ? Remember that the right of Ecuador and the Department of State fully supports the government of Correa.
Ecuador police crisis is much closer to the uniformed riot February 2003 in Bolivia against the "tax" to pay that attempted to impose the government of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
The spark of the uprising in Ecuador was policing the draft Public Service Act the government that has been rejected by the popular and trade union movement because it eliminates several special benefits and bonuses for workers and police troops.
The bill overrides certain rights of public sector workers, including police and military, such as retirement benefits, the right to pensions, awards and said vice president Edwin Medoya CEDECUT.
Members of the ruling Country Alliance National Assembly voted in favor of a law previously agreed upon with government workers, but in a second debate, President Correa vetoed the provision, agreed.
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and the leftist Popular Democratic Movement (MPD) explained that the primary responsibility of the political crisis was Correa's government itself, that "instead of meeting the huge needs and demands of Ecuadorian masses has facilitated the implementation of large-scale mining, the privatization and concentration of water and expansion of the oil frontier. "
According to MPD spokesman Stalin Vargas Correa's government has been derechizando and now promotes a new labor code that favors employers and that could leave their jobs to 200 thousand public servants, giving continuity to the old neoliberal economic policy.
Police insubordination, beyond their immediate demands, shows that "a process of change, however faint, run the risk of being defeated or right join, new or old, if not establish partnerships with organized popular social sectors and gradually deepens, "said CONAIE in a public statement signed by the president of CONAIE Marlon Santi, President Dolphin Ecuarunari Tenesaca, CONFENAIE President Tito and President Puanchir Olindo Conaice Nastacuaz
CONAIE states that "while the government has devoted exclusively to attack and delegitimize the organized sectors and the indigenous movement, labor unions, etc. ., has not weakened at all power structures of the right, even within the state apparatus .... "
face of criticism and mobilization of communities against multinational mining, oil and agribusiness, the Correa government responded with violent repression, as happened in Zamora Chinchipe, in full partnership with the business emerging reactionary Conaie complains.
said Ecuadorian indigenous movement to the Ecuadorian society and the international community its "rejection of economic and social policy of the government", and considered that the social crisis on Thursday had been "caused by non-authoritarian and openness to dialogue in the elaboration of laws. We have seen how the laws agreed were vetoed by the President of the Republic, ending any possibility of agreement. "
CONAIE convened to its bases to remain alert for mobilization "against the extractive model," and in defense of true democracy and Multinational "rights of workers affected by the arbitrariness with which it has handled the legislative process, knowing that they are legitimate claims."
Indian organization demanded that President Correa to abandon its "authoritarian attitude from the grassroots, not to criminalize social protest and the persecution of the leaders (because) this kind of policy just causes is to open on the right and create scenarios of destabilization. "
critical social sectors reiterated that the Correa government is obliged to rectify the utility bill because it violates the rights of workers and people of Ecuador.
... The other version is likely
the extensive propaganda and political passion has confused many "analysts" have prevented them from seeing the background of the violent uprising that killed at least six people. Analyzing
cool head, "a rebellion police, allegedly encouraged by the opposition Lucio Gutierrez and a fringe of left-Pachakuti movement without the right support local and U.S. government can be described as" coup ? Remember that the right of Ecuador and the Department of State fully supports the government of Correa.
Ecuador police crisis is much closer to the uniformed riot February 2003 in Bolivia against the "tax" to pay that attempted to impose the government of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
The spark of the uprising in Ecuador was policing the draft Public Service Act the government that has been rejected by the popular and trade union movement because it eliminates several special benefits and bonuses for workers and police troops.
The bill overrides certain rights of public sector workers, including police and military, such as retirement benefits, the right to pensions, awards and said vice president Edwin Medoya CEDECUT.
Members of the ruling Country Alliance National Assembly voted in favor of a law previously agreed upon with government workers, but in a second debate, President Correa vetoed the provision, agreed.
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and the leftist Popular Democratic Movement (MPD) explained that the primary responsibility of the political crisis was Correa's government itself, that "instead of meeting the huge needs and demands of Ecuadorian masses has facilitated the implementation of large-scale mining, the privatization and concentration of water and expansion of the oil frontier. "
According to MPD spokesman Stalin Vargas Correa's government has been derechizando and now promotes a new labor code that favors employers and that could leave their jobs to 200 thousand public servants, giving continuity to the old neoliberal economic policy.
Police insubordination, beyond their immediate demands, shows that "a process of change, however faint, run the risk of being defeated or right join, new or old, if not establish partnerships with organized popular social sectors and gradually deepens, "said CONAIE in a public statement signed by the president of CONAIE Marlon Santi, President Dolphin Ecuarunari Tenesaca, CONFENAIE President Tito and President Puanchir Olindo Conaice Nastacuaz
CONAIE states that "while the government has devoted exclusively to attack and delegitimize the organized sectors and the indigenous movement, labor unions, etc. ., has not weakened at all power structures of the right, even within the state apparatus .... "
face of criticism and mobilization of communities against multinational mining, oil and agribusiness, the Correa government responded with violent repression, as happened in Zamora Chinchipe, in full partnership with the business emerging reactionary Conaie complains.
said Ecuadorian indigenous movement to the Ecuadorian society and the international community its "rejection of economic and social policy of the government", and considered that the social crisis on Thursday had been "caused by non-authoritarian and openness to dialogue in the elaboration of laws. We have seen how the laws agreed were vetoed by the President of the Republic, ending any possibility of agreement. "
CONAIE convened to its bases to remain alert for mobilization "against the extractive model," and in defense of true democracy and Multinational "rights of workers affected by the arbitrariness with which it has handled the legislative process, knowing that they are legitimate claims."
Indian organization demanded that President Correa to abandon its "authoritarian attitude from the grassroots, not to criminalize social protest and the persecution of the leaders (because) this kind of policy just causes is to open on the right and create scenarios of destabilization. "
critical social sectors reiterated that the Correa government is obliged to rectify the utility bill because it violates the rights of workers and people of Ecuador.
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