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Related: About this forumEcuadorian President Wins Election for Third Term
Ecuadorian President Wins Election for Third Term
11:59 | 2013-03-28
TEHRAN (FNA)- Ecuador's National Electoral Council announced that incumbent President Rafael Correa won a new term in office based on the official results of the presidential election held on Feb 17.
The electoral authority said Correa and his running mate Jorge Glas garnered 57.17 percent of the votes, or 4,918,482 votes out of a total of 9,467,062, and declared Correa to be the next president and Glas as the next vice president, Xinhua reported.
Correa's seven rivals failed to get enough votes to take the electoral contest to a second round, with Guillermo Lasso, a challenger representing the nation's political conservatives, obtaining just 22.68 percent of the votes, according to the electoral body.
Correa, who has ruled Ecuador since 2007, will start the new term of office, his third, on May 24, when his current term ends. The third term will take him to the year of 2017.
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Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)57+% of the vote is truly impressive. It speaks to Correa's ability to form coalitions and to work with adversaries on the Left (for instance, Indigenous tribes and environmentalists who oppose some of his resource extraction projects). I've been worried about those disputes because the CIA is into destabilizing countries with Leftist governments and will, of course, try to infiltrate and exploit any such divisions on the Left, and they are joined by transglobal corporations which have their own dirty rotten tricks departments and contractors.
I'm thinking of Chevron-Texaco but there are others. Chevron set up one of the judges in the Indigenous peoples' lawsuit--a legal action seeking damages and remediation for Chevron's pollution of an area of rainforest the size of Rhode Island with toxic oil muds--and forced the first judge's retirement from the case, though the judge didn't really do anything wrong. Chevron sent two operatives to the judge, probably looking to bribe him or get him to say something compromising. They secretly videotaped the conversation. In response to a question, the judge told them he was going to rule against Chevron, before the ruling was issued. As this is against legal etiquette and, given the whole situation--a ruling tainted by such an incident--the judge recused himself.
Chevron lost the case anyway (the second judge ruled against them) but they won't likely pay up, cuz they and other transglobal corporations are sort of "floating countries"--so rich and powerful, and such a law unto themselves, that they might as well be countries, except that they have loyalty to no one, only to God Profit. And they have their own security forces, including hired death squads (Drummond Coal and Chiquita, in Colombia) and for sure have spies, infiltrators and dirty tricks agents within countries with resources they want to exploit, to control governments, police forces and militaries, to bribe judges and other public officials, to destroy labor unions and to cause trouble of whatever kind is needed, for whatever plot is in progress. (For instance, the oil bosses' lockout in Venezuela, trying to topple the Chavez government.)
I'm sure U.S. and Corporate plots are in progress in Ecuador. We've seen a number of them in Ecuador over the last decade. Such plots are in progress in Venezuela, of course--and likely in all the countries with Leftist governments (Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia--where a U.S.-supported coup attempt in 2008 was foiled--Uruguay, Nicaragua and other countries). (The coups in Honduras and Paraguay succeeded--the Honduran coup aided by the U.S. military and orchestrated by a P.R. firm in Washington DC).
The good news is that the South Americans seem to have excellent and COOPERATING intelligence agencies, and have foiled many a dirty trick and many an attempt against Leftist governments. The Leftist movement in Latin America, especially in South America, is so real and so big that it probably cannot be stopped, except by outright war--though the Honduran coup is certainly sobering.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)governments. I am surprised at how lenient they are with these people sometimes.
Great news about Correa though.