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Weekly Report - 19 May 2011 (WR-11-20)
ECUADOR: Full speed ahead
President Rafael Correa wasted little time in reacting to the narrow
margin of victory of his referendum on 7 May. The main scapegoat was his
interior minister, Alfredo Vera. There may yet be further cabinet casualties but
Correa has calculated that his best strategy is simply to ignore the close
result and proceed with implementing the referendum's proposals as if it were
the resounding victory he had predicted. The government is preparing to carry
out an "information campaign" in the provinces that rejected the referendum
proposals in a bid to dismantle the "rumours and lies" put out by the opposition
and to persuade people that they should have voted "yes".
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