Votos de Ecuador para el cambio revolucionario

Stephen Lendman

Presidente Raphael Correa de Ecuadorean tomó la oficina el 15 de enero que prometía a su progresista de la gente, social revolucionario y cambio económico desemejante cualquier cosa que este país sobre todo de la gente empobrecida tenía siempre bajo sus solamente gobiernos de la derecha beholden antes solamente a los intereses de capital. Correa prometió a “ciudadanos' revolución” que comenzaba bosquejando una nueva constitución en una asamblea constitutiva para quien un referéndum nacional fue celebrado el 15 de abril no prohibiendo a Ecuadoreans la derecha de decidir sobre ella, no políticos.

Ayer el rayo de la gente en alta voz y claramente a favor de proceder. The referendum was passed overwhelmingly by 78.1% in favor against a mere 11.5% opposed (with remaining ballots left blank or were void) according to a Cedatos-Gallup exit poll conducted among 40,000 voters with a margin of error around 2% that will be very close to the final official vote count due out in a week according to Ecuador’s Supreme Electoral Council (TSE).

The referendum was monitored by representatives from the Organization of American States (OAS) who judged it fair and open, but that judgment won’t likely silence Correa’s critics crying foul, calling the whole process unconstitutional, and saying adopting the “Venezuelan model” will scare off foreign investors - all false and misleading as eight years under Hugo Chavez proves. Venezuela is thriving economically under his progressive leadership, and Correa now hopes his agenda for progressive social and economic change will achieve the same results for Ecuador and its people. He now has a chance to do it.

Correa is following the same pattern Hugo Chavez chose in 1999 following his first election as Venezuela’s president in December, 1998. Chavez held a national referendum that passed overwhelmingly followed three months later by elections to the National Constituent Assembly. It then drafted the country’s new Constitucion de la Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela giving all Venezuelans a cornucopia of progressive social policies written into law. It appears Ecuador will go the same route with a new Constitution to be drafted later this year that again will be put to a popular referendum to let the people decide on it, not the politicians.

Sunday, President Correa voiced what most Ecuadoreans feel saying “It’s a day of national celebration, a victory for the people, for democracy” as he voted at a polling station in northern Quito, the capital. Correa promised progressive change for his people desperate for it, and as the country’s eighth president (three of them publicly toppled) in the last turbulent decade, he’s committed to deliver it saying earlier he’d resign from office if the April 15 referendum failed to pass. He had little reason to worry.

Hugo Chavez congratulated Correa and his people in his weekly Sunday radio and television program “Alo (Hello) Presidente” saying “Correa will go forward with the support of the great majority. We wish the best for the Ecuadorean people and President Correa, who has heeded with courage and valor the call of 21st century socialism.” The sentiment in Washington is likely to be quite different with public comments ahead barely concealing official contempt for any regional efforts toward real progressive democratic change. But what else would we expect from an administration run by a criminal element with no respect for the law or democratic will of people anywhere. Stay tuned for more developments as they unfold.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sj.lendman.blogspot.com and listen each week to the Steve Lendman News and Information Hour on TheMicroEffect.com Saturdays at noon US central time.

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