[Marxism] Prensa Latina: Ecuador Trying Out New President

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ecuador Trying Out New President 

# New President, Alfredo Palacio, (AFP)Quito, Apr 21 
(Prensa Latina) Ecuador Thursday began ´trying out´ Alfredo Palacio as
new president, wishing the old and new dreams of a highly poor
population are made true. 

The inauguration of Palacio ?former vice president- took place after
eight days of popular rallies unsatisfied with the national political
forces, which have doomed the country to crisis since last December. 

The demonstrators took the streets and faced the police expressing
discontent with then President Lucio Gutierrez´ management and
Congressional deputies´ incapability to annul the Court of Justice and
reform the judicial power. 

Palacio was named president due to Constitutional procedures precisely
and not because he had total support of demonstrators, who not only
wanted to oust Gutierrez, but all those in Congress as well. 

Palacio, aware of the political forces´ lack of prestige, sustains it is
necessary people´s assemblies debate on a new country, to restore it
directly and respecting the Constitution. He proposed solving
constitutional, legal problems, with a clear Court of Justice and
Supreme Election Court. 

For Ecuadorians, the new president has just begun his governability
test, and if he does not pass it could be ousted just as the previous
three presidents were. 

Meantime, Lucio Gutierrez, who is in the Brazilian embassy in Quito,
could travel to that country for asylum today, as announced by Brazilian
Ambassador in Quito Sergio Florencio. ´We hope talks with the Ecuadorian
government are fruitful, so that Gutierrez can travel today,´ he said.

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