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Weekly Report - 14 October 2010 (WR-10-41)
ECUADOR: Tense calm prevails
It is tenuous at best but the government is gradually putting
together a case to try and prove that President Rafael Correa was the victim of
a coup attempt and not merely a mutiny by part of the national police on 30
September. Correa is clearly deeply suspicious of the loyalty of the security
forces but he has been very careful so far to conceal this. Instead he is
blaming an alleged paramilitary police cell - Grupo Armado Policial (GAP) - for
fomenting the unrest and the opposition Partido Sociedad Patriótica (PSP) of
former president Lucio Gutiérrez for seeking to exploit it. Correa has lifted
the state of exception declared nationwide but retained it in
Quito.
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