Ecuador’s Correa forecasts the end of OAS and promotes the Group of Rio

Monday, June 1st 2009 - 13:22 UTC

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Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa said the Organization of American States, OAS, has “no longer a reason to exist” and forecasted it will be replaced by the Group of Rio, arguing it was time that Latinamerican issues ceased to be discussed in Washington. Read full article

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cacho
Presidente Rafael Correa is absolutamente correcto, en que la OAS no es un organismo efectivo para latinoAmerica, nunca lo fue, Si fue una organizacion titere de otros gobiernos fuera de nuestras tierras.

LatinoAmerica tiene que defender sus propios ideales y buscar consenso para defenderlo, o nos tragaran como lo an hecho hasta el momento.

Una de las acciones mas acertadas y caballerosas deberia ser, el apoyo para que se levanten en su totalidad, las sanciones economicas impuestas, 59 años atras a la Patria soberana de Cuba.

Y los cambios tienen que efectuase inmediatamente, no dentro de 2, 5 , 7, años pues quizas para ese entonces, sea demasiado tarde para realizarlos.
Jun 01st, 2009 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Masud
Why should Latin American countries apologize for Cuba's embargo? Cuba demonstrated the will to attack another OAS member during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, and so had to be embargoed to prevent an atrocity, which ALL Latin American countries would have done had they been in that situation. The Cuban leader hasn't (really) changed until now, so why should the embargo change?
Jun 01st, 2009 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pablo
Correa is an idiot who is squandering all the money of the State on the poor. Of course, he is popular but now that the oil revenues are down he is seizing control of the pension funds and the bank accounts of the middle class. Frankly, I don't understand why the local entrepreneurs don't stand up to this clown. He will be downfall of them all!
Jun 01st, 2009 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Agustin
“Correa is an idiot for squandering all the money of the state on the poor”, Pablo says above....lets see, would he smart as Bush to squander all that money on the rich so they can fly more often to Miami?
Jun 04th, 2009 - 08:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Agustin
“Correa is an idiot for squandering all the money of the state on the poor”, Pablo says above....lets see, would he be smart as Bush to squander all that money on the rich so they can fly more often to Miami?

Ecuador needs to “invest” that money on the most valuable resource of “any” country, its people. He is doing so, much more than any government in the past, twice as much. He is also making the Teachers Unions be responsible, forcing teachers to rigorous exams to see their educational levels...., he has invested billions in updating the medical facilities instead of just paying high interest in bad loans, that he actually hit a home run by reducing the debt by 25% in one shot...actually during his first 2 years, he has reduced the debt by 30%, first time in decades. So ironically he is doing good capitalism, investing for the future, reducing the debt burden for future generations, forcing corrupt monopolies and ridiculous wealthy ecuadoreans to pay their “legal share” and true taxes, etc....GDP growth in 2008 was 6% (pretty good) and this year expected at 2.5% with a gigantic world recession and huge drop in commodity prices....so all indications he is the man!
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