by Kristin Bricker
Although the Police protest represented a small fraction force 42,000 members, the situation quickly went out of control. Police occupied the National Assembly, helped close the airports, and Correa held hostage in a hospital for more than 10 hours until a Special Operations team rescued him. The riots left 10 dead and 274 wounded.
The rebellion began after the police that Correa used the veto to modify parts of the Public Service Act, which apparently had the objective of streamlining the public sector in Ecuador by removing some grants and forcing many civil servants to retire early. The president's veto power is provided the 2008 Constitution and the president has often been used to clear the Assembly.
According to Edwin Bedoya, vice president of the Ecuadorian Confederation of United Workers Class Organizations (CEDOCUT) version of the Public Service Act passed by the Assembly was originally developed in the negotiations between Correa's Alianza PAIS party and social sectors. "But we saw in the second round of voting that the President had vetoed the agreement and had taken away the rights of workers," said Bedoya. When the Assembly including some members of Alianza PAIS, resisted Correa changes in legislation, the president threatened to use his right to dissolve the Assembly to approve its version of the Public Service Act.
But the rebellion that ensued, Correa and others have emphasized, it was not a spontaneous uprising. While still being held hostage, Correa said: "It's a coup attempt led by the opposition and some sections of the armed forces and police." Many Latin Americans, still surprised by the coup against leftist President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras last year, it was feared that belt out the next. Other argued that calling the riots a "coup" is an exaggeration, and even self Correa has been kidnapped in order to increase his popularity and political power.
However, protests were held in at least four departments in Ecuador, calling into question its spontaneity. As noted Correa, the protests were "coordinated with the closure... The airport, coordinated with the attacks on the relay satellite television [state], with the invasion of Ecuador TV Studies [government-owned ] "and takes the Assembly by the police.
Moreover, videos taken from the police Striking at the time of the operation that freed Correa clearly demonstrates that the police were shooting to kill. Correa told reporters that the armored vehicle that took him away from the hospital was shot several times .
Although police hostage Correa, former Ecuadorian president Lucio Gutiérrez-Correa critic gave interviews from Brazil, highlighting the rebellion of the police as a coup. "The end of the tyranny of Correa is near" said, calling for the dissolution of Parliament "and" early presidential elections. " The former president's CRAFTSMANSHIP, Alberto Acosta, a follower of Correa became critic, reported that "former soldiers and ex-cop, the same people that make up the party's strength by Lucio," were seen in barracks in several cities. When police briefly occupied the Assembly, said Acosta, representatives who are members of Gutierrez's Patriotic Society Party came and went freely, while members of other parties "had trouble getting into."
Both Correa and the former National Police commander Freddy Martinez, who resigned after being unable to maintain control of their troops, they argue that external instigators infiltrated the police, the police tricked its austerity measures in the Public Service Act, and caused a riot.
labor and indigenous organizations in Ecuador, however, have adopted a more regulated. Rise of the police came, they said, because the right of Ecuador is taking advantage of the weaknesses created by the government alienating Correa style. Although opposed any coup attempt and demanded to respect the constitutional order, Correa also criticized for alienating his natural allies in social movements and remain vulnerable to attacks from the right.
A joint statement from four of the largest organizations Ecuador Indians rejected "the actions of the right to covert part of the coup attempt" and urged its members to "be alert and ready to move." However, the statement criticized Correa's government violently suppress demonstrations against transnational mining, oil and agro-industrial enterprises. The organizations argued that "the social crisis that was released today was caused also by the authoritarian nature and the lack of willingness for dialogue in the legislative process. We have seen how the laws that have been negotiated [with the social sectors] were vetoed by the President of the Republic. . . . This scenario is nurtured by conservatives. "
Union leader Bedoya says that on 30 September, CEDOCUT called on all sectors to take to the streets to restore constitutional order. However, as indigenous organizations in their country, called your organization with a defense of Correa: "We believe that part of the blame for what is happening lies in a refusal to dialogue with the social sectors."
Acosta, who co-founded the Alianza PAIS with Correa, echoes this. "The president and his government does not know how the dialogue, "he said." They impose its laws, without even respecting the criteria for the assembly of its own block. "
Worse, indigenous organizations argued the day of the coup, the Correa government has cracked down just as it has the right-wing governments. "Faced with criticism and mobilization of communities against transnational mining, oil and agro-industrial enterprises," wrote CONAIE ECUARUNARI, CONFENIAE and CONAICE , "the government, rather than creating a dialogue, responds with violence and repression.... The only thing that causes this type of policy is to open spaces to the right and create opportunities for destabilization. "Bedoya
shares this analysis:" Of course, the right takes advantage of this, and takes advantage of more sector powerful, which is the national police and military, and begins to sow discontent. . . but the government's behavior makes it possible. "
Acosta hopes his former ally learn from the rebellion of the police." History has given to President Correa, once again, the opportunity to rediscover the origins of the revolutionary process to rectify. Hopefully you understand it that way. "
" A citizen revolution, "says Bedoya," implies respect for the rights of all people, workers, collective rights organizations, and has established a dialogue bring to a conclusion with the social sectors. "
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