Sunday, November 26, 2006

Another Domino in South America

Ecuador goes left:
Ecuador's presidential candidate Rafael Correa has claimed victory in Sunday's run-off election.

Three exit polls and an unofficial quick count indicated Mr Correa had gained around 57% of the vote while Alvaro Noboa polled about 43%...

Although the official result has not yet been announced, Mr Correa has moved quickly to make policy announcements and appoint ministers.

He said he will try to rejoin the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) which Ecuador left in 1992.

He also named leftist economists Ricardo Patino and Alberto Acosta as his economy and energy ministers, Reuters news agency said...

An economic aide to Mr Correa said he would not pay some of Ecuador's "illegitimate" foreign debt and would not sign a free trade agreement with the United States, Reuters said.

While campaigning, Mr Correa said he wanted to renegotiate contracts with foreign oil companies.

Mr Correa is close to Venezuela's anti-American President Hugo Chavez and has called US President George W Bush a "dimwit".

4 comments:

troutsky said...

I thought Canada was supposed to be watching our back while we are a. somewhat distracted
b. a little tied up.
c. tending to some unfortunate business in "the greater Middle East"? Can't trust them Labatts drinking frostbacks!

helmut said...

Canada? Aren't they tied up with their own covert subversions throughout the world?

MT said...

This administration loves dominoes. See what's happening in Iraq?

helmut said...

Well, Scrabble never seemed to work well with W. He kept coming up with the same three-letter words (and then asking Condi, "is this a word?").