What happened yesterday Ecuador? There has been an attempted coup
not it was a "constitutional crisis", as reported by various media in Latin America, as if what happened constituted a conflict of jurisdictions between the executive and the Legislative and not an open revolt of a branch of the Executive, the National Police, whose effects are a small army of 40,000 men against the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Ecuador, which is nothing more than their legally elected President.
not it was a "constitutional crisis", as reported by various media in Latin America, as if what happened constituted a conflict of jurisdictions between the executive and the Legislative and not an open revolt of a branch of the Executive, the National Police, whose effects are a small army of 40,000 men against the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Ecuador, which is nothing more than their legally elected President.
Nor, it was what Arturo Valenzuela, Secretary of State for Inter-American State Department, described as "an act of indiscipline in the police." This fact was characterized in this However, if the equivalent American National Police of Ecuador had physically assaulted and beat Barack Obama, injuring yourself? If they had seized Obama, or he had been held in detention for 12 hours in a hospital, police, until a special command of the Army had not arrived to free him after a violent shootout?
Probably not, though, as you are talking about a Latin American president, the U.S. sounds like an intolerable aberration, the events are made to appear as a prank by young students.
In general, all the media oligopolies, they offered a distorted version of what happened yesterday, carefully avoiding mention of the attempted coup d'état. Instead, they mentioned an "uprising of the police," which, from every point of view, makes the events of Thursday in an episode anecdotal relatively insignificant.
This is an old trick of right, still wishing to detract from the abuses and injustices committed by their supporters and to magnify the errors or problems of the opponents.
For this reason, it is worth recalling the words spoken in the early hours of Friday by President Rafael Correa when he characterized the incidents as "conspiracy" to commit a "coup".
a conspiracy, since, as was abundantly clear yesterday, there were other actors who have expressed their support for the coup in the making, perhaps, were not effective Air Force Ecuador and the National Police, which they have paralyzed the international airport in Quito and a small airfield used for flights provincial? And perhaps, were not members of political groups who took to the streets and squares to support the coup? Perhaps it was the personal lawyer of former president Lucio Gutierrez, one of the thugs who tried to enter by force in the studies of Ecuador's National Television? Perhaps it was the mayor of Guayaquil and great rival of President Correa, Jaime Nebot, a declaration that it was a power struggle between Correa, an authoritarian and despotic character, and the police, who were wrong in methodology, but were right in their demands? This false equidistance between the parties in conflict was an indirect confession of his pleasure at what was happening and his desire to get rid of his underwear, at least so far, impregnable political enemy.
Not to mention the deplorable decline of the movement "indigenous" Pachakutik, in the midst of the crisis that has launched a public appeal to the "indigenous movement, social movements, democratic political organizations, to form a national united front to demand the resignation President Correa. "
"Surprises of life!" Exclaimed Pedro Navaja, however, should not be so surprised when people can register their generous contributions that USAID and the NED (National Endowment for Democracy) have in recent years through their parties and social movements, to ... "enhance" the citizenship of Ecuador.
Conclusion: was not a small isolated group within the police who attempted the coup, but rather a set of social and political actors to serve the local oligarchy and imperialism, which never forgive a Correa, among other reasons, he had ordered the dismantling of the U.S. military base in Manta managed, the audit of the foreign debt of Ecuador, ALBA and its cost.
Incidentally, For many years the Police of Ecuador, like other forces in the region have received support and training from their corresponding institutions in the United States. Maybe will get some notion of civic education or lessons concerning the necessary subordination of the armed forces and police to the civil power? It does not appear!
In fact, it is updated, the need to end, without further delay, the "cooperation" between the security forces in most Latin American countries and the United States.
It is already known for sure what is taught in these classes!
Why has failed coup?
Mainly for three reasons.
First, the rapid and effective mobilization of large sectors of the Ecuadorian people that, despite the danger exists, declined to occupy the streets and squares to express their support for President Correa.
It happened that should always be done in cases like this one: the defense of constitutional order has value in so far as is assumed by the people, which plays the leading role not only as a spectator of the political struggles of the moment.
Without the presence of the people in the streets and squares, a factor that was identified by Machiavelli already five hundred years ago, there is no republic can withstand the assaults of the guardians the old order. The institutional framework alone is unable to guarantee the stability of a democratic regime. The right-wing forces are too powerful and have dominated the social fabric for centuries. Only the presence of active, militant, the people in the street can make a clean sweep of the coup plans.
Second, the coup has been arrested for popular mobilization, which was deployed immediately in Ecuador, was accompanied by an immediate and overwhelming international solidarity, which began to be felt so effective as soon as we heard the first news of the coup, which, among other things, has made the convening of extreme urgency many opportunities for an extraordinary meeting of UNASUR (Union of South American Nations), in Buenos Aires.
support without hesitation from Correa by the governments of several South American and European governments has been effective, because it became clear that the future of the coup, when their plans were eventually culminated in a successful, would see the international political and economic ostracism and isolation. It proved, once again, that the UNASUR is working and effective, and the crisis could be resolved, as in Bolivia in 2008, without the intervention of foreign interest in South America.
Third, last but not least, for the courage of President Correa, who has been an awkward and has sternly resisted the harassment and imprisonment to which he was subject, even though it was obvious that her life was in danger, considering that, up to 'Last time, when he was leaving the hospital, his car was the object of shots from a firearm with the clear intention to end his life.
Correa has been shown to have the courage to deal with prospects of success, the events of a great political difficulty. If he hesitated, if he had been intimidated, or had declared their willingness to submit to his captors' plans, would be more was the result.
The combination of these three factors, the internal mobilization of the people, international solidarity and courage of the President led to the isolation of the mutineers, the debilitation of their forces and the operation was facilitated release of Correa implementation Ecuadorian Army.
may happen again?
Yes, because the fundamentals of golpismo have deep roots in Latin American society and U.S. foreign policy towards this part of the world.
If you go to review the recent history of our countries, we can verify that attempted coup had place in Venezuela (2002), Bolivia (2008), Honduras (2009) and Ecuador (2010), namely, four countries are characterized to be the site of significant processes of social and economic transformation and, last but not least, to be integrated in the book.
No right-wing government has ever been the victim of actions coup, in which the mark is incontestable political oligarchy and imperialism.
For this, the world champion of human rights violations, quell'Álvaro Uribe, with its thousands of disappeared people, with its mass graves, with its "obvious fake", has never had to worry about riots directed against military him during the eight years of his mandate.
It is unlikely that other right-wing governments in the region could be the victims of an attempted coup in the next few years.
Of the four coups attempts since 2002, three have failed and only one, the one perpetrated in Honduras against Mel Zelaya, was crowned with success. (*) However, there is the significant fact that the execution was a surprise in the middle of the night, which would have prevented the news was public domain until the next morning and people could not win the square. When people took to the streets, it was too late because Zelaya had been exiled. Moreover, in this case, the international response has been slow and warm, the absence of readiness necessary and intensity instead were found in the case of Ecuador.
lesson to be drawn: the instant reaction democratic and popular it is essential to turn the sequence of actions and processes golpismo, sequence that is rarely something other than a web of initiatives that, in the absence of obstacles that are interposed in their path, mutually reinforcing. If the popular response does not come immediately, the process will backfeed, and when he decides to opposition, then it is too late. And the same is true for international solidarity, in order to be effective, must be immediate and uncompromising in His defense of the democratic political set up.
Fortunately, in the case of Ecuador these conditions are met, and that is why the coup attempt failed. However we must not delude ourselves: the oligarchy and imperialism will return groped, perhaps by other means, to overthrow these governments who refuse to submit to their interests.
(*) The four coups, to which reference is made to correspond to as many nations of the ALBA. It would just add to this list also the case of Haiti, but was not included because Haiti is not part of the ALBA. On February 28, 2004, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was kidnapped, always in the middle of night, loaded to force in a plane provided by the U.S. government, forced to submit his resignation and moved to a country in Africa, Central African Republic. As in other cases, there were vehement popular protests in Haiti who demanded a return to the government of President Aristide, but everything was useless.
Translated by Curzio Bettio Relief Popolare di Padova
Source: http://www.atilioboron.com/2010/10/nota-sobre-el-frustrado-golpe-de-estado.html # more
date of the original article: 01/10/2010
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