Miami Herald – BY CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER – Correa’s recipe for disaster

“Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, has just published a book. He titled it Ecuador: From Banana Republic to Non-republic.

He posits that the country, under his leadership, ceased to be a banana republic, governed arbitrarily for the benefit of a dishonest oligarchy and foreign capital, and became a traditional republic with a separation and balance of powers, a neutral constitution and open institutions that propitiate changes smoothly under the tranquil protection of the rule of law — something that it’s not.”
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