Checking in on Ecuador
The international relations analysts at newley.com, enjoying the luxuries of American life and simultaneously suffering pangs of nostalgia for dear sweet Ecuador, read with interest that about a thousand Indians and union workers marched through Quito yesterday. They were protesting Ecuadorian prez Lucio Gutierrez’s economic policies, which include higher taxes meant to satisfy the IMF.
NarcoNews.com’s Luis Gomez argues that Gutierrez’s problems with Ecuador’s indigenous population are due to his ties to America: “Ecuador�s Guti�rrez, Washington�s new puppet, splits with the Pachakutik Movement.”
In other news from latitude zero, the perpetually volatile Tungurahua volcano, outside Banos, began belching ash and gas last night.