Breaking News President Gutierrez-Bush's Puppet in Ecuador flees to Panama

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BREAKING NEWS! PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ - BUSH'S PUPPET IN ECUADOR FALLS! BUCARAM FLEES TO PANAMA. CONGRESS SWEARS IN ALFREDO PALACIOS
By Carlos Herrera - Bolivarian Activist - Axis of Logic Exclusive!
Apr 20, 2005, 16:40


Update - April 20, 2005, 7:40 p.m. EST - Ex-president Gutierrez has just asked for political exile to join Abdala Bucaram who has already fled to Panama.

Ecuador's president, Lucio Gutierrez was sacked today with events moving at lightening speed in Ecuador in the wake of massive protests by the People of Ecuador.

Protest marches took place in Quito (Ecuador’s largest city) and in Guayaquil, Cuenca and Riobamba. They were repressed by police using mainly tear gas and rubber bullets. They took a turn for the worse when a 58 year old Chilean journalist, Julio Garcia, died after suffering a cardiac arrest due to the effects of the gas. A 50,000 strong march in Quito was attacked by police trying to disperse protesters calling for President Gutierrez’s resignation. At least one hundred people were either injured or wounded on the streets of the capital.
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_16956.shtml

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1. hmmm

What will be the reaction in Washington, I wonder?

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2. Yeah!

Good riddance!
May the people get to elect a better President!

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3. viva la PEOPLE

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7. Ditto nt

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4. According to NarcoNews, he's still in Ecuador at the Brazilian embassy

He tried to go to Panama, but didn't make it out of the country, apparently.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/20/153619/925
(look down the page for the latest updates)

According to Venezuela’s Globovision, Lucio Gutiérrez is indeed in the Brazilian embassy, where he has requested political asylum in that country. He seems to have arrived there by helicopter after protesters prevented him from leaving the coutnry by airplane. Protesters hope to prevent him from leaving the country, in order to bring charges against him in Ecuadorian courts.

It is still difficult to know quite what is happening in the wake of Gutiérrez’s abandoning the presidency. Voices on Radio La Luna, one of the main forces behind the movement in Quito, report rumors that members of the military high command, who earlier had declared their support for Gutiérrez despite the obvious popular rejection of his rule, have decided not to recognizes Palacio as the legitimate president of Ecuador.

It is not clear where Palacio is at the moment, and for some time now he has not appeared at the presidential palace, Carondelet, or made any statement. Callers from the streets have also reported pro-Gutiérrez agents trying to provoke violence in the streets. All this has led some to wonder if the military is preparing a coup d’etat against the man who legally took the presidency today with the backing of Congress.

Hopefully, Palacio’s whereabouts will be known soon and nasty rumors of a military coup can be written off as just that.

Article from Globovision referenced about this (in Spanish):
http://www.globovision.com/internacionales/2005.04/20/asilo/index.php

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5. This is pretty intense and tense

The people are rising throughout Latin America and certain hopes are rising . Let us wish that the drerams come to fruition. It will reveal itself in the morning perhaps?


The headline at the website for the Brazilian daily O Globo reads: Brasil dá asilo ao presidente do Equador – “Brazil gives asylum to president of Ecuador.” (The articles can't be accessed without a subscription.) This is somewhat surprising – Venezuela had already denied Gutiérrez asylum, and he was expected to try to head to Panama. He is now hiding out in the Brazilian embassy, with Ecuadorian police under orders to arrest him on sight.

The coup scenario described above seems to have been, as hoped, merely rumor. As I listen to Radio La Luna, whoever is speaking now just closed an emotional commentary saying: “Last night, we slept under a dictatorship. This morning, we woke up to a dictatorship. But tonight we can sleep in peace.” The new president, Alfredo Palacio, has already suggested the possibility of holding a new constitutional assembly, in response to popular demands for “creating a new country.”

The Organization of American States will hold a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the crisis in Ecuador.

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6. Here it is from Translator

Brazilian government granted diplomatic asylum to Pike Gutiérrez



The Brazilian government "already decided to grant him diplomatic asylum" al destitute president of Equator, Pike Gutiérrez, reported on Wednesday night to the AFP a spokesman of the chancellery in Brasilia.

Gutiérrez, was found in the embassy of Brazil in Quito, where requested diplomatic asylum, reported in the night from this Wednesday the Brazilian Department of Foreign Affairs in a communiqué. The government of the president Luiz Inacio Lula gives Forest "is taking the necessary providences to grant the asylum", added the communiqué diffused to the press by the chancellery in Brasilia.

The text recalled that "the concession of the political asylum is regional tradition and is instituído in the regular, Public international law by the Convention on Diplomatic Asylum signed in Caracas March 28, 1954 , and promulgated in Brazil by means of the decree 42.628 of November 13, 1957 ".

Finally, the official statement reiterated the terms of another statement divulged previously by the same department, in which indicated that "the Brazilian government continues with worry the constitutional political picture in Equator and reiterates the expectation by a peaceful solution that assure the institutional normality", in that country