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Weekly Report - 23 July 2015 (WR-15-29)

ECUADOR: Correa ups ante in response to general strike

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has instructed his chief lieutenant, the foreign minister Ricardo Patiño, to marshal support for his government as opposition groups prepare to stage a general strike on 13 August. Patiño has taken a temporary leave of absence, ostensibly to support the ‘national dialogue’ process called by Correa in June after protests erupted over his government’s proposed inheritance tax reforms. In practice, and not entirely in keeping with the spirit of dialogue, Patiño appears to have been assigned the task of shaking up the ruling party, Alianza País (AP), to prepare a rapid reaction force to flood the main square outside the Carondelet presidential palace in Quito, for instance, with supporters in response to opposition protests.

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