Will Washington intervene in Ecuadors election?
Will Washington intervene in Ecuador’s election?
By Earl Bousquet
China.org.cn, March 26, 2017
Red lights are flashing warning signals across Ecuador, where millions in the small South American nation are preparing to return to the polls on April 2, after casting ballots on February 19 in the first of two presidential polls to choose who will replace outgoing President Rafael Correa.
The upcoming poll will determine the fate of the Correa-led 10-year-old “Citizens Revolution,” which cut poverty in half under a system of “21st Century Socialism,” which created what the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) judged as “the world’s most inclusive period of economic growth.”
Located between Peru and Colombia and with ownership of the Galapagos Islands 1,000 miles away in the Pacific, the 272,045 square kilometer country of over 15 million people has seen much social progress under Correa, who from 2007 restored peace and stability, social and economic progress, to a nation that earlier counted seven presidents in ten years.
Correa’s two successive administrations put political reform alongside economic nationalism. He moved swiftly to overhaul the constitution and the discredited political institutions and renegotiated agreements with the mainly American private oil companies to increase the country’s share of its oil revenue.
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