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Cato at Liberty – A Witch Hunt Is Underway in Ecuador

This article looks into the events of the day of Ecuador unrest in late September, and analyzes what has been going on in its aftermath:

Many people feared that President Rafael Correa would unleash a witch hunt in Ecuador after the police uprising of September 30th that his government quickly dubbed a “coup attempt.” As my colleague Gabriela Calderón wrote a few days after those incidents, the government’s narrative that Correa was kidnapped in a hospital by rogue elements of the national police has been severely undermined by several witnesses who claim that Correa stayed voluntarily in the building and was in control of the situation the entire time. Mary O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal also mentioned this in her weekly column.

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