What a shocker. Go Hugo! Go KRY!

Chavez and Evo blame the U.S. for the uprising in Ecuador
Articles - National
Saturday October 2, 2010

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Chavez is in Argentina for the emergency meeting of the presidents of UNASUR.


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales agreed yesterday to say that the U.S. was behind the police revolt against the president Rafael Correa. Other regional leaders yesterday condemned what happened in Ecuador, where Correa was detained for several hours in a hospital surrounded by unruly until the army conducted a rescue operation. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who had expressed his government's support for Correa, yesterday spoke by telephone with the president to reiterate his support.

During a 10-minute conversation, Clinton "called for a return (of normal Ecuador) continuous, rapid and peaceful," the State Department spokesman Philip Crowley during his daily press conference.
Correa "gave his perspective on what happened yesterday, and both agreed to continue working together to strengthen Ecuador's institutions and the rule of law," said Crowley.

"We demand the U.S. government not to continue getting their old imperial hands on this continent," Chavez said at the conclusion of Friday's emergency meeting of UNASUR.

Stressed, according to the version of the DyN agency, the U.S. administration acts "fund with millions and millions of dollars to right-wing movements, many of whom walk plotting to destabilize the governments of the countries of the Bolivarian Alternative."

Morales accused the "Department of State of the United States" to "gestate" the revolt against Correa, noting that the leaders of South America are "the great defenders of democracy."

"For the president like Chavez, and Bolivia, Rafael Correa's partner, accusing us of totalitarian dictators, the authoritarian, the Department of State of the United States, but from past coups are brewing."

He added that "there are still some reactionary groups in Latin America who think that a coup can solve problems or programmatic political differences."

Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero claimed to respect democracy in Latin America after the failed insubordination.

"Fortunately it appears to be resolved by the intervention of the army that was loyal to the democratically elected government and, therefore, is restored constitutional rule in Ecuador," Zapatero said in an interview on public radio RNE.

"We're going to see the extent that this action was," said Correa over allegations that it was a coup attempt planned perfectly.

Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes said yesterday that what happened in Ecuador, "is a sign of irrationality and the spirit that spurs on privileges that are not willing to abide by democratic rules when they are not protecting their interests."

In Cusco, Peruvian President Alan Garcia said Friday that Correa "has been strengthened on this point ... has been vaccinated against coups, at least in this administration."