President Correa was in Yachay for the start of a four-day Innopolis science and technology fair entitled ‘Knowledge is Freedom’ (see box below). He has made no secret of the fact that he wants the City of Knowledge to be his enduring legacy. Yachay is the most visible example of the change Correa is seeking to promote in Ecuador; change which he argues provokes the hostility of a “self-serving and mediocre” elite determined to destabilise his government and seize any opportunity to oust him. The only time when this arguably came close to occurring was 30-S. On this day Correa visited a police barracks in northern Quito to address police disgruntled over salary and benefit cuts. As the police grew mutinous, Correa had to be whisked away to a nearby military hospital, where he was trapped for 10 hours, famously shouting from one of the windows, “Come on then, if you want to kill me, here I am”.
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