Weekly Report - 07 July 2011 (WR-11-27)

President Rafael Correa is no stranger to power clashes. He took on the national assembly when he came to power in 2007 and won. He is now taking on the judiciary. The conviction last week of six police officers involved in the infamous police mutiny on 30 September 2010 has been the catalyst for a remarkable internal judicial dispute. These are the first men to be found guilty of participation in what Correa insists was a coup attempt. Their convictions released months of latent tension over the Correa administration's sweeping judicial reform proposal, which was approved in a national referendum on 7 May [WR-11-19]. Correa is calling for a swift resolution of the "chaos".