Weekly Report - 21 October 2010 (WR-10-42)

The jury is still out on whether the police uprising in Ecuador on 30 September was part of a planned coup d'état, but the Latin American Left across the region is getting jumpy again about future ruptures of the democratic order. None more so than in El Salvador. While Ecuador's Rafael Correa and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez portrayed the police uprising as a coup to undermine the regional Revolution, El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes gave a more pragmatic response. He urged the Organization of American States (OAS) to revamp its democratic charter to counter any threats to democracy.