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By Darrall Cozens in Quito, Ecuador
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
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There is plenty of evidence that the workers and peasants in
Ecuador
have shifted radically to the left. Opinion polls, surveys and the real movements
on the ground indicate that more and more people are turning against
capitalism. This has produced the new Correa government. But again, we see
temporising and vacillation. The masses want action, not talk.
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By Jorge Martin
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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
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On Sunday, April 15, the masses of Ecuador
delivered a blow against the oligarchy and imperialism by voting massively in
favour of calling a Constituent Assembly. In the face of opposition of all the
parties over 81% voted Yes. The situation in Ecuador
is going in the same direction as that in Venezuela.
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By Dax Toscano - El Militante-Ecuador
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Tuesday, 28 November 2006 |
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With a resounding
victory over his rival, Rafael Correa was elected president of the Republic of
Ecuador in the elections on November 26, 2006. The Ecuadorian people have obtained an important victory
over the groups which hold economic and political power. However this is just a
first step. The masses must be ready against any attempts of the
counter-revolution.
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By Rob Sewell
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Thursday, 12 October 2006 |
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Governmental crises, general strikes,
mass movements and revolutions have characterized the situation over the last
six or seven years in Ecuador. Now national attention has been focused on the presidential
elections where former Finance Minister Rafael Correa has emerged as self-proclaimed
standard-bearer for the downtrodden masses.
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By Patrick Larsen
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Monday, 27 March 2006 |
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The magnificent
revolutionary movement in Ecuador has risen once again forcing the
government to declare a state of emergency in four main provinces.
What we are witnessing is the early beginnings of a movement that
could develop towards a new insurrection.
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By Patrick Larsen in Quito
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Friday, 03 March 2006 |
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Almost one year has passed since Lucio Gutierrez was ousted from power, overthrown by the rising of big sectors of the Ecuadorian population. His replacement, the former vice-president Alfredo Palacio, has not managed to solve any of the fundamental problems that led to the April 2005 rising. Great contradictions are accumulating and will sooner or later explode in new revolutionary events. |
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By Patrick Larsen
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Thursday, 23 February 2006 |
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Ecuador is a country were no less than 7 presidents have been in office in the past 9 years. Time and again the Ecuadorian masses have risen against the policies of imperialism. We met Marcelo Roman to ask him about these developments and comment on the present situation in Ecuador. |
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By Miriam Municio
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Thursday, 21 April 2005 |
 Once again the masses in Ecuador have risen up. As we predicted, the President, Lucio Gutierrez, has been overthrown by mass opposition. Before him Bucaram and Noboa were chased out of power by revolutionary uprisings of the masses. The pressure of the masses is unstoppable and reflects the revolutionary developments unfolding across the whole of Latin America. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 12 December 2003 |
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The brutal repression of the teachers' protest in Ecudaor in December highlights
the fact that the period of waiting on the part of the Ecuadorian masses is
over. The movement of 2000 brought Lucio Gutierrez to power, but he has merely
continued with IMF policies. Now Ecuador is poised for a new movement on a
higher level, comparable to that of Bolivia. |
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By Julian Costas
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Tuesday, 26 November 2002 |
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The final results of the Ecuadorian elections have meant the victory of the left-supported
candidate Lucio Gutierrez. As was the case with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Gutierrez has
come to power pushed by the most oppressed and exploited sections of society in Ecuador.
The new government will, from the very beginning, be subjected to the pressure of the
masses and of imperialism and the Ecuadorian ruling class. It is completely impossible to
conciliate these two sets of opposite interests and this will necessarily lead to a new
heightening of the class struggle. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Wednesday, 14 February 2001 |
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Once again Ecuador started the year with mass demonstrations and strikes. For ten days the
whole of the country was paralysed by peasant road blocks, demonstrations and occupations
of government buildings. A year after the revolutionary events of January 2000 very little
has changed for the masses of workers and poor peasants who fought for a fundamental
change in their living conditions. |
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By Ruben Rivera
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Monday, 03 April 2000 |
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A review of the situation in Ecuador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina. From
the Mexican Marxist paper Militante. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Tuesday, 14 March 2000 |
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Since the revolution in January, in which the masses took power for a few hours and
were betrayed, Ecuador seems to have returned to normal. The new president Noboa gave
the go-ahead to a package of laws which mean the "dollarisation" of the economy,
the deregulation of the labour market and massive privatisations. But inevitably,
these measures are preparing the way for a new social explosion. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Sunday, 23 January 2000 |
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After a week of mass mobilisation, demonstrations, strikes and clashes, on Friday
21st of January tens of thousands of Indians, peasants, workers and students in Ecuador
took over one by one the buildings of the Parliament, the Supreme Court and the National
Palace and established an alternative government. Faced with these events the world's mass
media, which had remained silent for the whole week, started to scream that a military
coup had overthrown the government of president Jamil Mahuad. It is therefore necessary to
clarify first of all that what has happened in Ecuador in the last week is a
revolution. |
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By Ted Grant and Alan Woods
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Friday, 19 June 1998 |
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It is nearly seven years since George Bush, the then president of the US, made his famous
"New World Order" speech. This was in 1991. In the build-up to the Gulf War the
main imperialist power on earth promised a world without wars, without dictatorships and,
of course, a world firmly under the control of a single all- powerful world policeman--the
US. After the fall of Stalinism, US imperialism really thought that the world would be
firmly under their command and they would be able to dictate the destiny of each and every
country. All conflicts in the world were to be solved through dialogue in a kind of
"Pax Americana." Now all these dreams have been reduced to rubble. In this
document Ted Grant and Alan Woods make an in-depth analysis of the history of the
imperialist domination of the Third World and the way. Written in June 1998. |
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