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Andean Group - March 2015 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Correa rides to Maduro’s rescue

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa is championing regional efforts to buttress the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Correa has delivered the most strident criticism of the US for declaring Venezuela to be an “extraordinary threat to national security” and slapping sanctions on government officials in Caracas suspected of human rights abuses on 9 March. Correa rallied the region to declare full solidarity with the “democratically elected” government in Venezuela and to rebuke the US. While the perceived aggression of US foreign policy fell like manna from heaven for the beleaguered Maduro, it also serves Correa’s purposes. The radical Left is a tight brotherhood in Latin America, but there is also a domestic political rationale for Correa’s actions as he maintains that the opposition is coalescing in Ecuador and conspiring to destabilise his own government.

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