La OEA, con sus deficiencias y fragilidades, ha sido un foro útil para dirimir conflictos relacionados con Ecuador. Las críticas del Gobierno Ecuatoriano contra la OEA se profundizaron a raíz del fracaso de mediación durante el golpe de estado en Honduras. Con respecto a la OEA y Washington, Correa tiene dos agendas: una ideológica y otra electoral. Sumario La agenda de algunos mandatarios latinoamericanos, entre ellos el presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, es...
The OAS at times has been a useful forum for discussing and resolving conflicts related to Ecuador, a country that just played host to visiting Iranian President Ahmadinejad. As of now, Ecuador’s government has voiced increasingly rambunctious criticism of the OAS due to its inadequacy in the arbitration during the Honduran coup. Regarding the OAS and Washington’s stand on it as seen from Quito, Ecuador’s president Correa is pursuing a double-edged agenda: an ideological...
The struggle to save Ecuador’s fragile Amazonian Yasuni-ITT preserve (situated in a UNESCO Biosphere Preserve) from oil drilling has met with some recent successes. President Rafael Correa’s innovative “crowdfunded” Yasuni-ITT Trust Fund initiative aims to raise USD 3.6 billion from contributors around the globe over the next twelve years. Correa argues that since people everywhere will benefit from the lack of emissions generated by extracting and utilizing the oil, governments everywhere should contribute to...
Washington and Venezuela’s ties are further frayed as Miami consul general is expelled from the country. President Obama’s authorization of the expulsion of the Venezuelan consul general from the consulate office in Miami has further deteriorated relations between the two countries. Although the Obama administration has not been explicit as to the reason for the expulsion, the action is within Washington’s legal right. This decision makes it even more apparent that Washington is unwilling...
President Rafael Correa has enjoyed some success in transforming the journalists and others who work for the privately held media into the bad guys who fight the government at every turn. The large financial award (about USD 40 million) against the Quito newspaper El Universo infuriated advocates of press freedom around the world who accuse the President of being the “apprentice of a tyrant.” El Universo’s opinion editor Emilio Palacio is currently railing against...
