Ecuador’s Lucio G.: Stronger Than Ever?
Miami Herald: “QUITO, Ecuador - President Lucio Gutierrez seems in recent weeks to have learned an old Ecuadoran proverb - en desquite, no hay venganza. Loosely translated: turnabout is fair play.
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“Gutierrez is better off now than when he took power,” said Adrian Bonilla, Ecuador director of FLACSO, a Latin America-wide program for social sciences studies. “He’s consolidated power in the military. The opposition is off-balance. The United States is working with him.”