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Weekly Report - 23 January 2014 (WR-14-03)

ECUADOR: Correa celebrates new landmark

President Rafael Correa celebrated his seventh anniversary in power on 15 January, eclipsing his icon former president Eloy Alfaro (1895-1901; 1906-1911) as the longest consecutive serving head of state in Ecuador’s history. He chose a poor suburb in the coastal city of Guayaquil still lacking basic services as the venue for a party on 18 January. His choice was deliberate. Correa is gunning for Jaime Nebot, the long-serving mayor of Guayaquil, the last opposition bastion, in municipal elections on 23 February. The poverty of the suburb was calculated to show voters that Nebot has neglected the poor. The government also released myriad statistics showing the great strides taken under Correa’s citizen’s revolution over the last seven years compared with the seven years before he came to power.

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