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Weekly Report - 11 February 2016 (WR-16-06)

Ecuador’s Correa locks horns with military

Retired military officers in Ecuador led a protest march against the government led by President Rafael Correa on 10 February, five days after he announced the dismissal of the military high command. Pro-military demonstrators gathered on Quito’s Los Shyris avenue, an established venue for opposition protests, while pro-government supporters gathered outside the presidential palace. Correa fired the military high command after it issued a declaration refusing to return US$41m from the armed forces social security institute (Issfa) from an overvalued land deal. “Nobody is above the law,” he declared emphatically “not even the country’s soldiers”.

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