Reply #5: BBC misinformation or sheer incompetence? [View All]

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(From the BBC story)

A senior minister in the Ecuadorean government says parts of a law which provoked a police rebellion earlier this week will be rewritten.

(But note that nowhere in the story is the lede graf backed up.)

It is also incorrect. Here is what Policy Minister Doris Soliz told Reuters about the law (and which the BBC did NOT include.)

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Soliz added the government planned to rewrite the austerity law to clarify it, rather than make any major changes.

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"TO CLARIFY IT, RATHER THAN MAKE ANY MAJOR CHANGES"

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About the possibility of dissolving Congress, Doris Soliz told Reuters:

She did not rule out using decree powers if the Congress continued to block laws. "The option is there, it has no expiry date."

(Which the BBC story also omitted.)

So it is no wonder there is confusion. The BBC is contributing to it big time.