[Peace-discuss] CEPR: Obama Administration Should Oppose Any Attempted Coup in Ecuador

[Robert Naiman]

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Administration Should Oppose Any Attempted Coup in Ecuador: CEPR Co-Director
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*For Immediate Release:* September 30, 2010
*Contact: *Dan Beeton, 202-239-1460

*Washington, D.C.* - There are currently reports of a possible attempted
coup d'etat underway in Ecuador. There have been violent protests by police
and some elements of the military, reports that President Correa has been
injured, and reports that the air force has closed down a number of
airports.

The Organization of American States will convene an emergency meeting at
2:30 Eastern Standard Time in Washington D.C., to consider the situation.

Mark Weisbrot<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FkZ7OYhFSckkcC10uyS%2BZN9dKyfaqw1a>,
Co-Director of the Center For Economic and Policy Research, called upon
President Obama to state unequivocally that the United States will not
recognize any government other than the democratically elected government of
President Rafael Correa.

Weisbrot noted that the White House statement of June 28, 2009,  in response
to the military coup in Honduras, did not make any such assertion, and in
fact did not even condemn the
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.

"These types of statements are very important, in that the people who are
trying to overthrow a democratic government are looking for signs of whether
a coup government will be recognized by the United States. The first White
House statement last year in response to the Honduran military coup sent the
wrong signal at a crucial moment."

At the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad in April 2009, President Obama
stated: "I just want to make absolutely clear that I am absolutely opposed
and condemn any efforts at violent overthrows of democratically elected
governments, wherever it happens in the hemisphere.

"This is an important time for President Obama to live up to this
commitment," said Weisbrot.

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