<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>Correa has been hospitalized after a tear gas attack.<div><br></div><div>I am tracking feeds here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/#search">http://twitter.com/#search</a>?q=%23Ecuador</div><div><br></div><div>#Ecaudor<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Gerard Coffey <<a href="mailto:cafecito98@yahoo.com">cafecito98@yahoo.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">September 30, 2010 12:28:31 PM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">gerard coffey <<a href="mailto:cafecito98@yahoo.com">cafecito98@yahoo.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Coup in Ecuador?</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>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....<br><br>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¨ <br><br>I havent seen any military presence although some reports talk about that, <br><br>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.. <br><br>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.....<br><br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>