>X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 >Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:46:30 -0500 >From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >All Power to the People in the true American Revolution ! > >CB > > > >>>> Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/23/00 11:04AM >>> >The Washington Post, July 23, 1996, Tuesday, Final Edition > >Indians of Ecuador Coalescing in Quest For Political Power > >Gabriel Escobar, Washington Post Foreign Service > >QUITO, Ecuador-- After years of methodical organizing, an alliance of >Ecuador's Indian groups has for the first time scored impressive victories >at the ballot box, placing itself in the vanguard of Latin America's >indigenous movement. > >The immediate result, in what amounts to a political revolution here, will >be evident on Aug. 10, when more than 70 Indians are sworn in as >congressmen, mayors and councilmen. The first to be elected independent of >Ecuador's traditional parties, their ascent to political office is viewed >here as historic. > >-clip- > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
