...though Ecuadorans, by their own civic effort, are enjoying the most stable and progressive government EVER.
But we really ought to keep pointing out over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and OVER again, how not perfect they are, how tragic conflicts between economic growth and social justice, on the one hand, and the environment and the Indigenous on the other, afflict even progressive democracies who enshrine Mother Nature's rights in their constitution. We can't be told this often enough, to sour our admiration of the awesome leftist democracy movement in Ecuador and its successes throughout South America and to discourage us from thinking that there is anything to admire or imitate in that movement, that might help us to restore democracy and social justice in our own country.
We especially need to be advised that Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa (60% to 70% approval ratings) is not perfect and dislikes rowdy and violent protests--even if the protest cause is a good one--cuz, guess what?--he defied the U.S. and the European powers by granting political asylum to an anti-war journalist who is wanted "for questioning" on "sex crimes" in Sweden, and, though he three times made himself available "for questioning," they wouldn't question him and got an international arrest warrant for him instead, to make him seem like a criminal, and it's just not cricket to not bend over in those circumstances and agree to be persecuted, and neither is it cricket for little countries with their own problems to assist anti-war journalists in not being cricket.
We need to be advised that the police in Ecuador are not perfect--except when they riot over a misunderstanding about their pensions and benefits, shut down the legislature and trap the president of the country in a hospital after injuring him when he came to talk to them. That's perfect--trying to overthrow a leftist president. But in every other way they are not perfect and have a tendency to overdo it.
We need to be advised, also, many times--in fact, that is all we need to know about Ecuador--that the courts in Ecuador are not perfect--cuz, guess what?-- an Ecuadoran court issued a multimillion dollar judgement against that 'virtuous' entity, Chevron-Texaco, in favor of the Indigenous whose lands were polluted by Chevron-Texaco's toxic oil dumps over an area the side of Rhode Island, and they didn't do it, honest, somebody else did it, it's an extortion scheme, and, in Ecuador, Chevron-Texaco can't get no justice, cuz that Rafael Correa is a dictator, just like Chavez who poked that other virtuous entity, Exxon Mobil, in the nose, and we can't have that, can't we?
You see? We need to know that Ecuador is flawed. We need to keep that and only that in our minds, and ignore all else, and we need to hear it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and OVER again.
So, I suggest you keep posting this info over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and OVER again, until the Corporate Press picks it up--which they surely will--and then you can post it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and OVER again in different guises--the Associated Pukes version, the New York Slimes version, the BBCons version, in all their lovely diversity of approaches on how not perfect Ecuador is--so that we get a really accurate picture of how totally not perfect Ecuador is--totally, totally not perfect, so not perfect that what Ecuador really is is a dictatorship that's mean to people like Chevron-Texaco and the Indigenous alike, imagine that.
And as for Rafael Correa's 60% to 70% approval ratings, the stupid peasants in Ecuador don't know what's good for them and shouldn't be allowed to vote on their own constitution and then elect a dictator who lets sex fiends into the country! Somebody needs to take charge there, throw him out and restore "free trade for the rich" so the Indigenous can have their rights and control the natural resources on their lands, without other Ecuadorans telling them what to do. Yes! Restore the U.S. military to their base in Ecuador and put Chevron-Texaco in charge of the oil, and freedom and democracy will come to Ecuador with no sex fiends preying upon Ecuadoran women and forgetting to use a condom in the middle of the night after a night-long, admittedly consensual romp in the hay! No sex fiends in Ecuador! No protests! --cuz who would want to protest "freedom and democracy"? Everybody happy!
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