An Open Letter to the Media on the 'Irony' of Snowden's Request for Asylum in Venezuela and Ecuador

[Catherina]

4. Or that their democratically re-elected President has a 90% approval rating the highest in the world

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22662200

and has lifted millions out of poverty,building schools, hospitals, housing instead of skyscrapers.

While America has spent the last ten years waging illegal wars, killing innocents with drones, spying on everyone and financially raping the majority for the benefit of a miniscule few, EQUADOR has got its shit TIGHT.

GDP up 7.8% in 2012... unemployment down 4%... a million Ecuadorians brought out of poverty (in a nation of 15 million) since Correa arrived... net emigration of Ecuadorians prior to Correa now = net immigration.... wages up 3% last year.

And you should see what those third world pinkos are blowing all the money on... infrastructure, women’s shelters, schools, hospitals, the elderly, the disabled, all that booty that could be sending young Equadorians overseas to kill people being wasted to 'better the plight of of its citizenry'. Lame.

And homicides down 27% between 2008 and 2012. It now has a rate of 12.14 cases per 100 000 inhabitants.

A 90% approval rating, the highest in the world. It kills them. I love it.

Correa’s and Ecuador’s Success drive The Economist Nuts
Posted on February 13, 2013

By William K. Black

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has the special ability to drive our most elite media nuts. Failures are self-refuting. It is the successful that drive their opponents to distraction, and much of the media can barely contain its eagerness to write that Correa has failed. In 2009, The Economist practically licked its lips in eager anticipation of what it hoped would be Correa’s (and Ecuador’s) failure due to the “country’s acute financial problems.”

“Mr Correa appears to be uncorrupt. The giant increase in public spending he has overseen (it rose by 71% last year) has resulted in new schools and hospitals. Testing of teachers, with pay linked to results, has been introduced. When talking to an educated audience, Mr Correa stresses the need to improve the country’s economic competitiveness.

All this has led some American diplomats to hope that Mr Correa can be detached from the orbit of Mr Chávez. But his anti-Americanism is visceral. His father spent time in an American prison for transporting drugs and committed suicide after returning to Ecuador.”

The problem is that Correa, and Ecuador, refuse to fail. Indeed, the most popular elected head of state in the Americas is Correa – by a considerable margin. Correa was never in Chavez’s “orbit.” Correa has long been an independent intellectual leader of progressive movements in Latin America.

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http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/02/correas-and-ecuadors-success-drive-the-economist-nuts.html