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	<title>Council on Hemispheric Affairs &#187; Ecuador</title>
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		<title>Rafael Correa Sueña con estar Distanciado de la OEA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. &#160; Sumario La agenda de algunos mandatarios latinoamericanos, entre ellos el presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, es alejarse lo más pronto y lo más lejos posible de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), vista por ellos como la máxima representante del poder hegemónico de Washington. En este enrarecido ambiente, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) es una víctima colateral que, por ser adscrita a la OEA, arrecian las críticas en su contra, muy a pesar de que su trabajo difiere del accionar inoperante y politizado de la OEA. La corriente de desconfianza en contra de este foro hemisférico, en el caso de Ecuador ha hecho que el país busque otros foros, como Unasur, Alba y ahora la Celac, para hacer oir su voz Uno de los personajes del  escritor austriaco, Karl Kraus exclamaba: “El que tenga algo que decir, que dé un [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa: Straying from the OAS, But Making Time for Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 and an electoral one. It is within this context that his recent meeting with the visiting Iranian leader should be comprehended. Executive Summary A number of Latin American leaders, such as the president of Ecuador, have developed the habit of turning their backs as far and as quickly as possible from the Organization of American States (OAS), considered by them, fairly or not, as a leading extension of U.S. dominance. One of the latest instances of this criticism is growing against the otherwise highly regarded Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which is directly linked to the OAS, even though its work differs substantially from the at times politicized and ineffective OAS. Spurred by its distrust regarding the OAS, Ecuador is now energetically searching for a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yasuni-ITT Trust Fund Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The struggle to save Ecuador&#8217;s fragile Amazonian Yasuni-ITT preserve (situated in a UNESCO Biosphere Preserve) from oil drilling has met with some recent successes. President Rafael Correa&#8217;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 the effort to keep it underground. The first phase of the international plan was based on a December 31, 2011 deadline to raise USD 100 million. While the UN-administered trust fund itself currently does not contain that amount, when paired with public commitments, that goal actually has been surpassed. These commitments have proved satisfactory enough for Quito to keep the drilling equipment out of the preserve, at least for now. Italy carried out the largest commitment in its forgiveness of USD 51 million of Ecuador&#8217;s debt, setting a precedent that many are speculating will be followed by other countries that up to now have remained undecided about contributing to the trust fund. This action incidentally has given President Correa an opportunity to concede implicitly (further softening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Ahmadinejad Visits Four Latin American Countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington and Venezuela&#8217;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 or unable to implement policies that will constructively influence Latin America. The White House’s latest decision displays the hard truth that President Obama’s approach is to deal with left-leaning hemispheric regimes with a hard-line political agenda of ridicule rather than through constructive policy-making in the region. His administration’s attitude seems to be that no hemispheric issue has the potential to be a compelling factor in the next US presidential election. However, votes could be picked up from rightist exile groups coming from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela among other disaffected conservatives, who hold passionate thoughts on their personal political agendas. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived on Sunday night to Caracas in the first stop of a four-nation tour of Latin America. Besides Venezuela, the Iranian leader will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Media Caught in the Crossfire between a Popular President and Defenders of Free Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 President Correa from self-exile in Miami while several other journalists have quit their jobs in Ecuador as a result of unremitting government pressure, where they then have begun to blast Correa as a tyrant. Throughout its history, free speech in Ecuador has been under constant threat by the government. After the country’s democratic life resumed in 1979, León Febres Cordero soon became one of the presidents who most abused his power to intimidate the media. Since then, there has not been a lack of heads of state who have done the same—among them Sixto Durán Ballén, Gustavo Noboa, Abdalá Bucaram, and Lucio Gutiérrez. Such leaders had been intent on closing down radio and television networks, while accusing the journalists of corruption, or encouraging the public to [...]]]></description>
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