Ecuador

• Press release

  CADTM rejoices at the failure of the coup in Ecuador

  
  by CADTM

  2 October 2010

  CADTM rejoiced at the failure of the attempted coup in Ecuador and supports popular mobilisation to stand up for social and democratic advances. On Thursday 30 September an attempted coup failed in Ecuador. A significant portion of the national police sequestered president Rafael Correa after he urged policemen to accept the law on public services which had been adopted at its first reading by the national assembly on 29 September 2010. The aim of this law is to end certain financial (...)

• Press release

  CADTM denounces the attempted coup in Ecuador and supports popular mobilization to defend democratic and social progress

  
  by CADTM

  1 October 2010

  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 the law on public services which had been adopted at its first reading by the national assembly on 29 September 2010. The aim of this law is to end certain financial benefits enjoyed by police and armed forces. A sector of the armed forces, including air force personnel, together with police, took control of the country’s (...)

• Ecuador at the crossroads

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  28 April 2009

  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 popular mobilization in 2005. At the head of what he calls a “citizens’ revolution process”, Rafael Correa had already won several significant ballots. Elected president at the end of 2006, he held a (...)

• Indigenous Peoples Rising

  by James D. Cockcroft

  26 January 2009

  Indigenous peoples in Indo-Afro-Latin America, especially Bolivia and Ecuador, are rising up to take control of their own lives and act in solidarity with others to save the planet. They reflect the important role of social movements in the current epoch of globalization, development, and neo-liberalism’s ideological collapse. They are key participants in the new economic and political integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. They are calling for new, yet ancient, practices of (...)

• Ecuador : Report on External Debt reveals that its objective was to benefit financial sector and transnationals

  25 September 2008

  The Comprehensive Public Credit Audit Commission, created in July, 2007, presented its Final Report to the president of the Republic, Rafael Correa, in which it concludes that over the period 1976-2006, the process of indebtedness in Ecuador took place to the benefit of the financial sector and transnational corporations, affecting visibly the interests of the State. The Report establishes responsibilities and co-responsibilities of lenders and of Ecuadoran authorities and officials. (...)

• Wayward Allies: President Rafael Correa and the Ecuadorian Left

  by Daniel Denvir

  26 July 2008

  Outside of Ecuador, most progressives consider President Rafael Correa to be a Leftist champion of social and economic justice. Inside the country, however, conflicts between Correa and the social movement Left, the indigenous movement, environmentalists and unions, among others have become increasingly heated. On June 23, Constituent Assembly President and long-time social movement ally Alberto Acosta resigned his post after high-profile disagreements with Correa over issues of procedural (...)

• CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY NEVER AGAIN (NUNCA MAS) FOREIGN MILITARY BASES OR TROOPS IN ECUADOR

  by Helga Serrano N.

  3 April 2008

  The National Assembly that is writing a new Constitution for Ecuador approved the following article on April 1, 2008: "Ecuador is a territory of peace. No foreign military bases or foreign installations for military purposes may be installed. No national military bases can be granted to foreign armies or security forces." This is a triumph not only for organizations such as the Ecuador No Bases Coalition that have proposed that this article be included in the Constitution, but also for (...)

• Rafael Correa actively supports the ongoing work of Ecuador’s debt audit commission

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  9 March 2008

  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 went as follows: three days of meetings for each of the 5 sub-committees (bilateral debts, multilateral debts, external commercial debts, internal commercial debts, legal aspects), three days of plenary (...)

• REUTERS press release

  Ecuador’s Correa: Probe shows illegitimate debt

  26 February 2008

  QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa on Saturday said an ongoing government probe into the country’s foreign debt has unveiled "illegitimate" credits that he has vowed not to repay. Correa, a leftist former economy minister, has pledged to stop payments of "illegitimate" debt or credits which he said were acquired under unfair terms by past corrupt administrations and that forced Ecuador to lower social spending. But the U.S.-trained economist had until recently lowered his (...)

• 6th International Seminar on Debt and Law

  19 October 2007

  Auditing the debt Case studies of 4 countries : Ecuador, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, the Philippines Friday October 19 and Saturday October 20 from 9.30am to 5.30pm Venue : Congress room of the Belgian Senate, 21 rue de Louvain in Brussels

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