>From: "Jose G. Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Status: > > According to leaders of the Indian movement, they had plotted together >with the generals the overthrow of the government and were betrayed by the >generals. > > This, they pointed out, was a second great betrayal that their movement >had suffered; the first was at the hands of the politicians when the >Indigenous movement supported the "constitutional coup" against Bucaram >three or four years ago. > > You might say, serves them right, the dirty reformists but my impression >from far away is that these are far from typical social-democrats. They have >led a powerful mass mobilization against the dollarization of the economy >and the corruption of the existing regime (to those who say this last point >smacks of "sewer socialism," I would urge them to think about why agitation >around corruption was perhaps the single most effective weapon in the rebel >arsenal in the war against Batista -- basically, because in any number of >instances, the lack of schools, textbooks, desks, clinics, roads, etc., >presents itself first of all as the result of government officials having >stolen the money supposedly assigned to those purposes). They have fostered >the creation of a series of local, provincial and even a national popular >assembly, which, with the right perspective, would have become organs of >dual power and an insurrection is they were not already in fact tending to >act in that way. > > It is, I think, typical of a peasant-based movement to rely on other >forces. Clearly, what is missing is a revolutionary working class movement >following an *independent* class policy. If anyone has or has seen material >examining this angle of the issue, and what role the Ecuadorean working >class and its organizations have been playing, I'd appreciate seeing it. > >José > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tony Abdo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 4:54 PM >Subject: Re: [Fwd: CNN: Ecuador's Noboa assumes power after coup] > > >> This is a neat sleight of hand by the Ecuadorian military. I wonder >> if the people will fall for it? >> >> In effect the military has said............... We are with you, >> Ecuadorans! We overthrew Mahuad for you. But the US and the OAS >> have given us no out, except to put the vice-president, Noboa, in >> charge. This is a REAL change! Now go home and cause no >> further problems that would bring down on us, the wrath of the US. >> >> Can the US government control the collapse of all 3 governments >> (Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador), all at one time? >> US OUT OF SOUTH AMERICA! >> >> > > __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
