New York Times – Ecuador Leader Confounds Supporters and Detractors

This piece in the New York Times profiles Ecuador President Rafael Correa’s biography and his role in the recent unrest in the country:

It would be hard to find someone more representative of this country’s political establishment than Mauricio Gándara, an aristocratic former ambassador to Britain who lobbied for an obscure economics professor named Rafael Correa to become finance minister five years ago.

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