Correa relates what happened yesterday.

[rabs]

UNASUR foreign ministers flew into Quito today. This evening they met with Correa who related to them what happened yesterday and last night. You can listen to him speaking to the ministers at link below. Dramatic stuff from a president who was nearly killed last night.

http://www.radiopublica.ec/ecmovimiento.php?c=1349

Go to this audio for his explanation to the foreign minister

2010-10-01 20:07
CON PALABRAS DEL PRESIDENTE RAFAEL CORREA CONCLUYE REUNIÓN DE CANCILLERES DE UNASUR
El Presidente ecuatoriano narró los hechos acontecidos ayer, explicó las intenciones de matarlo que fueron descubiertas por operaciones de Inteligencia

(He explained the intention to kill him were discovered by intelligence operations (radio intercepts -- "Kill Correa," "Kill the president."

The other audios are equally riveting.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Uh, rabs. When I tried to rec., it came up 0. Some tool unrec'd it first.

Thanks for posting this link.

UNASUR Chancellors Travel to Ecuador

Regional leaders agree at special UNASUR summit in Buenos Aires to travel to Ecuador in support of President Correa

UNASUR chancellors left Friday morning for Quito to support Ecuador's President Rafael Correa who faced a coup d'etat attempt on Thursday. The officials are traveling to Ecuador with the approval of their presidents who determined during the special UNASUR summit to denounce the attack against Correa and to demand that those responsible for the events which have led to chaos in the South American country be condemned. Argentina's Foreign Relations Minister Hector Timerman traveled to Ecuador in the company of his Uruguayan colleagues and with Colombia's Foreign Minister María Ángela Holguín and Chile's Foriegn Minister Alfredo Moreno of Chile. Chancellors from Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro; from Bolivia, David Choquehuanca, and from Peru, José Antonio García Belaunde, also departed for Quito on separate flights.
01-Oct-2010 05:10pm

http://www.poder360.com/dailynews_detail.php?blurbid=9364

[EFerrari]

2. Correa seems to say that the officials who detained him in the hospital

had documents all ready for him to sign. Did I hear that right?

[Peace Patriot]

3. If that's true, then that is why he told Chavez on the phone that he was "going out as president or

as a corpse." They were trying to get him to resign.

I was wondering about that statement. He was not in immediate physical danger while inside the hospital. No gun to his head, etc. The hospital was surrounded, and there were insurgents inside (but one hospital spokeswoman said they were unarmed). There was, indeed, danger outside--as became evident when he finally was able to leave. Shots were fired hitting his car. And snipers were shooting at the army. So why would he say that, on the phone in the hospital? That his choice was to remain president or die? Through everything up to that point, I didn't get any notion from reports that resignation was on his mind, in any way--until that statement to Chavez was reported, and, even then, I didn't much credit it. I didn't at all think of the 2002 Chavez resignation scenario.) I just vaguely wondered why he put it that way.

This would explain it.

[EFerrari]

5. There were officials from the national police inside the hospital

and there were attempts at forced entry to the room where he was. He could also hear the crowd of rioting police outside chanting "Lucio".

And remember, he was injured -- half blinded from the gas and somehow his knee was re-injured in the melee. He came out of the hospital in a wheelchair.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Did y'all see Bachus39's post on Lucio Guiterrez's daughter and cousin?

Veddy interesting!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x42516

[rabs]

7. Look at the source of that report

It is Gilmar Gutierrez, brother of the nutbag Lucio. And of course El Universal of Caracas.

The article says Lucio G. is in Brazil to "observe" tomorrow's national election.

Last night I spent some time scanning the Brazilian online media and could find nothing about his being there.

It would seem that someone who is accused of trying to topple a president and government would be a hot target for journalists to interview. But nothing so far.

Another point:

You probably saw reports that Hillary called Correa on FRIDAY morning, to express her support for "Ecuadoran democracy."

On Thursday evening, when the coup/assassination attempt was still at a dangerous stage, Hillary's flack Crowley said State was "closely watching" the situation. But at that time, Crowley did not express any U.S. condemnation of the coup attempt or support for Correa.

By Friday morning, when the coupsters had failed, THEN Hillary called.

Really makes me wonder whether Hil and company were waiting for .....

Looking at the Ecuadoran media last night, did not see a single word that Hillary had called Correa, which is odd.

[EFerrari]

8. Bingo. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

9. There was a conspicuous silence from Washington on this. What was offered was late,

and it was so weak they Hillary shouldn't have bothered.

Can only suspect them now.

[EFerrari]

6. My god, rabs. They tried to kill Correa, his guard and his ministers.

And Correa says that when he met with reps of the national police, none of them had even read the law that they were supposedly protesting.