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Weekly Report - 29 October 2015 (WR-15-43)
ECUADOR: Correa challenges deputy to duel
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa last week challenged an opposition deputy, Andrés Páez, to a face-off. Páez had posed the rhetorical question on Twitter: “if the Dhruv helicopters are so good why has Correa never travelled aboard one but always defended their acquisition?” Earlier this month the defence ministry unilaterally cancelled a contract with the Indian manufacturer, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), four of the seven Dhruv helicopters purchased in 2008 having crashed in the last six years.
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