[PAA-Discuss] FW: [friends_of_kpft] URGENT / Coup in Ecuador! Take Action!

Thu Sep 30 23:45:09 EDT 2010

Please send to your contacts! see telephone info below. Lee Loe

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Subject: Coup in Ecuador! Take Action!
Date: Sep 30, 2010 12:13 PM

Coup in Ecuador! Urgent Action Needed! 

Call the State Department and White House!

Your call could make a difference!

We have received reports that a coup is taking place in Ecuador. The
situation is in flux. There are reports that President Rafael Correa
disappeared after meeting with the police but other reports say he is in the
hospital surrounded by police after a tear gas attack. All the airports are
closed; the Congress has been taken over by the police; banks are closed.

There is still hope, however, that that the coup can be stopped in its
tracks. The top army commander in Ecuador says the military remains loyal to
President Correa.

Call the State Department and the White House Comment line and tell them to
make a statement that the US will cut off all military, police and
development aid to Ecuador if the coup is carried to completion

This coup in Ecuador, the second ALBA country now to suffer a coup, is the
direct result of the US government support for the June 28, 2010, coup in
Honduras. We cannot allow our government to again support anti-democratic
forces in Latin America.

Contacts:

To contact Senators and Representatives:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

To contact the State Department:
Fax: 202-647-8947, Voice: 202 647-8947, or Email: Maria Otero, Under
Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs, c/o Laura Pena, Assistant,
PenaL at state.gov
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Dr. Arturo Valenzuela, Assist. Sec. of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs:
ValenzuelaAA at state.gov
<http://us.mc1124.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ValenzuelaAA%40state.gov> ;
Ambassador Craig Kelly, Principal Deputy Asst./ Secretary, Western Office of
Hemisphere Affairs: KellyC at stategov
<http://us.mc1124.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=KellyC%40state.gov>  (Fax:
202-647-0834)

To contact White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact and White House Comment Line 202-456-1414;
Dan Restrepo, Special Asst. to the President, Western Hemisphere Affairs,
drestreop at nsc.eop.gov
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PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY: URGENT! Attempted coup against Ecuadorean
government

Initial reports today inform that sections of the Ecuadorean Police are
staging 
street demonstrations, ostensibly for economic demands but in reality trying
to 
subvert the legal order, including through trying to occupy the National 
Parliament. Additionally, in open revolt against the government, some police

officers have taken illegal control over their police stations.

There are also reports that members of the Quito army barracks in the
capital 
city occupied these barracks in open mutiny against the government. In
response, 
President Rafael Correa went to the barracks to talk to the rebels and was 
attacked by CS gas which exploded near his face. The President is now in the

hospital of the Quito Regiment, with minor concussions but well. The armed 
forces have him under their control in the Quito barracks.

In a clearly orchestrated action of open rebellion, members of the armed
forces 
also took control and closed the Mariscal Antonio José de Sucre airport.

In response to these developments, on live TV through TELESUR at about 18
hrs 
(GMT) President Rafael Correa said: "It's a coup d'etat, a conspiracy
organised 
by the opposition." President Correa hinted that UNASUR was likely to hold
an 
emergency meeting to defend the democratic order that is under threat in
Ecuador 
and also said that police officers supportive of the revolt were trying to
get 
to his hospital room to attack him. He added that he was standing firm in
the 
defence of the democratic order in Ecuador and there was no way he would 
capitulate, and that he could only lose his life.

The Foreign Affairs minister has called upon people to march to the hospital
to 
protect the life of the President. Mass demonstrations are now taking place
in 
the whole of Ecuador in support of the legitimate and democratically-elected

government of President Correa. People are currently congregating around the

Quito barracks hospital to protect the President. 

President Correa and his government have won every single democratic
election 
since his election in 2006. The government has expanded democracy and 
implemented policies to redistribute income to the poor, benefiting millions
of 
people hitherto socially excluded. The country has also had a new
constitution 
overwhelmingly approved at a national referendum, which is deemed to be one
of 
the greenest and most progressive constitutions in the world. 

Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk

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