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

Thu Sep 30 23:49:20 EDT 2010

It's my understanding from contacts in Ecuador that the President was
protected at the hospital by the military, that fighting has gone on between
the military and the police, and that the military has returned the
President to the presidential palace. Who knows what will happen next,
however.

Alyssa Burgin

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Lee Loe <leeloe at igc.org> wrote:

>  Please send to your contacts! see telephone info below. Lee Loe
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> *Subject:* [friends_of_kpft] URGENT / Coup in Ecuador! Take Action!
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>   fyi
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>   From: Alliance for Global Justice <afgj at afgj.org<http://us.mc1124.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=afgj%40afgj.org>>
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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<http://us.mc1124.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=PenaL%40state.gov>
>
> 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<http://us.mc1124.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=drestreop@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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