Ecuadorian vice president incited to overthrow president: report

[Judi Lynn]

Ecuadorian vice president incited to overthrow president: report
13:07, October 07, 2010

Ecuadorian Vice president Lenin Moreno said on Wednesday that unknown people suggested him to overthrow President Rafael Correa on the same day of policemen protests.

Moreno said that those people asked him "if at any moment I would like to be the president and I told them no."

Moreno said that this incitation were done at the moment Correa was kept in the Hospital of Quito by a group of rebellious policemen.

Moreno told local TV channel Ecuavisa that he was always in contact with Correa during the police protests.

Correa on Tuesday signed a decree to extend until Friday a state of emergency that was imposed after the police riot last Thursday.

Recordings of police radio traffic released on Tuesday indicated the protesters had attempted to kill Correa when they staged a revolt against a law that would cut police bonus as part of the austerity measures the president is trying to push through.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/7158448.html

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Vice President Lenin Moreno

Lenín Voltaire Moreno Garcés (b. 19 March 1953, in Nuevo Rocafuerte in the province of Orellana) is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician.

Moreno has been the Vice-President of Ecuador since 15 January 2007. He and President Rafael Correa were elected at the 26 November 2006 general election.

Moreno has held many government-related jobs, such as a lawyer and Administrative Director of the Ministry of Government. He has used a wheelchair since taking a gunshot to the back in a 1998 robbery attempt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%C3%ADn_Moreno

[Downwinder]

1. What more proof do need that it was US sponsored?

Anybody else would have had another Government ready to go. Same in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Honduras.

[EFerrari]

2. Bizarre. Who planned this thing, the Three Stooges? n/t

[rabs]

3. Los tres chiflados

From left, ringleader Lucio Gutierrez, Fidel Araujo (who got caught and is in the pokey now) and Gilmer Gutierrez, brother of Lucio.

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Btw, the headline on the story is misleading. At first read thought the vice president had "incited" to topple Correa. It is just the opposite.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Saw that! It does force a double-take, for sure. Very rude behavior for a V.P.! n/t

[rabs]

5. Oh noes, Hugo is the cad. (Lucio Gutierrez)

Was just reading opposition newspaper El Comercio of Quito and found article in which Lucio G. says:

--Coup? Which coup?" an indignant Lucio G. said.

--Gutierrez did not only deny (Correa's charges) but he accused Correa and his ally Hugo Chavez as being responsible for the crisis ...

--"There was no coup 'd etat attempt here. It is a farce, a media show by Rafael Correa," he said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday night when he returned from Brazil ...

--"The president was not kidnapped. He was receiving orders from Hugo Chavez and I think that Hugo Chavez is the one who, after talking with Rafael Correa, launched the kidnapping lie ..."

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"¿Golpe? ¿Qué golpe?", dijo indignado Lucio Gutiérrez, ex presidente y líder de la oposición, a quien el mandatario Rafael Correa acusó con nombre y apellido de instigar una violenta revuelta policial para derrocar a su Gobierno y asesinarle.

Gutiérrez no sólo negó los cargos, sino que acusó al propio Correa y a su aliado venezolano Hugo Chávez de ser los responsables de la crisis, en la que un grupo de policías amotinados llegó a acorralar al gobernante en un hospital del que fue rescatado por militares a sangre y fuego.

"Aquí no hubo ningún intento de golpe de Estado. Es una farsa, todo es un show mediático de Rafael Correa", dijo en una entrevista con Reuters el miércoles en la noche, cuando regresó de Brasil donde fue observador en los comicios presidenciales.

En la modesta sede de su partido Sociedad Patriótica, segunda fuerza política del país, se reunieron decenas de colaboradores y amigos para dar su respaldo al político de 53 años, quien co-lideró un golpe de Estado en el 2000 y fue igualmente depuesto por una asonada en el 2005.

"El presidente no estaba secuestrado. Recibía órdenes de Hugo Chávez y creo que Hugo Chávez es el que, luego de conversar con Rafael Correa, lanza la mentira del secuestro", agregó el político, flanqueado por la bandera nacional y un retrato de su época de primer mandatario entre 2003 y 2005.

[EFerrari]

6. LOL. I'm going to start calling this guy Cantinflas Guitierrez.