Weekly Report - 08 December 2011 (WR-11-49)

ECUADOR | Public-private conflict at heart of Revolution. President Rafael Correa faced some extraordinary criticism this week from the man he recently replaced as president of the central bank, Diego Borja. It was all the more remarkable because Correa had kept Borja on as head of the technical commission for the new international financial architecture - albeit this was clearly a demotion. Speaking in an interview with the national daily El Comercio, Borja said “There cannot be a democratic, inclusive and pluralist party when there is a tremendously loud voice from somebody that defines everything.” He insisted that dissidence should not be a motive for branding someone a traitor or disloyal. He also stressed that “We should not confuse the citizens’ revolution with the Correa administration. They are two distinct things. The people support a political proposal, but not one of intolerance, concentration of power and happy management of the public accounts.” He said others in the cabinet felt the same but had not spoken out.

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