Weekly Report - 29 September 2011 (WR-11-39)

One year on and Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa is determined to convert the police rebellion of 30 September 2010, during which he was briefly sequestered in a military hospital, into a defining point of his presidency, much like Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez has the failed coup d’état of 11 April 2002. Correa, who insists the police mutiny, which ended with his rescue by the army, was part of an attempted coup, will head an event in Quito planned by the ruling Alianza País (AP) commemorating the first anniversary of ‘30-S’. The culture ministry is organising six different events across Ecuador, and there are a host of smaller activities ranging from expositions to youth workshops on the meaning of democracy.

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