OAS meets to discuss Ecuador uprising, approve resolution

[Judi Lynn]

OAS meets to discuss Ecuador uprising, approve resolution
Thursday, September 30, 2010 | 22:34 ET

The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) began an extraordinary session in which members approved a resolution project in order to "decidedly support the constitutional government" of Ecuador.

The OAS meeting began at 3:05 pm (local time) and gathered representatives of neighbouring countries belonging to the hemispheric organization, in a meeting convened due to the police and military riots in the Andean country.

The resolution states that the organism "1. Repudiates any intention of altering democratic institutionalism in Ecuador; 2. Decidedly supports the constitutional government of President Rafael Correa in his duty to preserve the institutional and democratic order, as well as the rule of law; and 3. Makes an energetic call to Ecuador's public force, along with the political and social sectors, to avoid any kind of violent act that could exacerbate a situation of political instability, attacking an instituted democratic order, social peace, and public security."

It continues by stating that the OAS "4. Requests the Ecuadorean government to continue informing on the development of events in the country with the aim of taking appropriate action in order to strengthen and preserve democratic institutionalism; and 5. Asks the Secretary General to provide all kinds of cooperation on behalf of the organization upon request by the Ecuadorean government, so as to preserve democratic institutionalism in said country."

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http://www.buenosairesherald.com/BreakingNews/View/46745

[Judi Lynn]

1. Coup Attempt in Ecuador Is a Result of Sec. Clinton's Cowardice in Honduras

Coup Attempt in Ecuador Is a Result of Sec. Clinton's Cowardice in Honduras
Posted by Al Giordano - September 30, 2010 at 5:49 pm
By Al Giordano

Oh, crap. Another year, another coup in Latin America. And while today's attempt by police forces in Ecuador went so far as to fire tear gas at elected president Rafael Correa, the military brass in the South American country have sided with the democratic order - its top general is on TV right now strongly backing the elected government - and this one isn't likely to go as well for the anti-democracy forces as last year's did in Honduras.

First, because the Ecuadorean people are far more advanced in social and community organization than their counterparts in Honduras were last year. Second, because the events last year in Honduras caused other center-left governments in the hemisphere to prepare for what everybody saw would be more coup attempts against them in more countries.

Additionally, we can expect in the coming hours that the police leaders responsible for todays events - you don't need to understand Spanish to get a pretty good idea of what went down this morning by watching the above video - will be rounded up and brought to justice, as would happen in any other country, including the United States.

But, kind reader, do you know why this is even happening? Because the same unholy alliance of Latin American oligarchs who can't stomach the rising wave of democracy in their countries - from the ex-Cubans of Miami to the ex-Venezuelans and others who have joined them in recent years - along with international crime organizations seeking new refuges and members of extreme rightist groups in the United States and elsewhere, saw their scheme work in 2009 in Honduras and took note of how quickly, after US President Barack Obama denounced the Honduras coup, his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began playing both sides of it.

It was this newspaper, through reporter Bill Conroy's investigations, that broke the story last August that the State Department-controlled Millennium Challenge Corporation had poured extraordinary amounts of money into Honduras in the months leading up to the June 29, 2009 coup d'etat. And in story after story, we demonstrated with documented fact how Clinton's Millennium Challenge Corporation went so far as to violate the ban on US aid to the Honduran coup regime. Clinton's later endorsement of farcical presidential elections and her over-reaching attempts to pretend nothing had happened in Honduras are precisely the signals that were received by today's coup plotters in Ecuador when they made a run at toppling the democratic government there.

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http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/4138/coup-attempt-ecuador-result-sec-clintons-cowardice-honduras