[Lasa] Fwd: Coup in Ecuador?

[Michael K. Dorsey]

Correa has been hospitalized after a tear gas attack.

I am tracking feeds here:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23Ecuador

#Ecaudor

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> From: Gerard Coffey <cafecito98 at yahoo.com>
> Date: September 30, 2010 12:28:31 PM EDT
> To: gerard coffey <cafecito98 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Coup in Ecuador?
>
> Here the police have taken control of the streets in a number of  
> different cities in the country, some of them very agrressive and  
> armed, attacked a press photographer took his camera away and then  
> his photos, punched me when I tried to intervene to stop them, about  
> ten, from seriously hurting someone whose bag they wanted to take  
> away, they did....
>
> tires are burning and it´s difficult to qualify this as anything  
> else other than an attempted Coup, especially as the police are  
> shouting ´out with Correa out with Correa¨
>
> I havent seen any military presence although some reports talk about  
> that,
>
> the fight is supposedly about the new Civil Service legislation  
> which has, they say, taken away some of their benefits....  but also  
> in play here are the accusations of the Truth Comission about  
> violations of HUman Rights and also the specific accusations against  
> about twenty police regarding people dissappeared, tortured etc..
>
> it seems unlikely that the policie are supported by the general  
> population who generally see the police as the most corrupt and  
> inefficient instiution in the country.....
>
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