Weekly Report - 28 June 2005

“Of the executive there was nothing left, with a government that did not govern; the legislature did not legislate; and, as if by magic, the judiciary vanished."
Alfredo Palacio, president of Ecuador, summing up the situation in April, when congress removed President Lucio Gutiérrez from office.

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