Ecuador's Correa has majority before key vote: poll

[Judi Lynn]

Ecuador's Correa has majority before key vote: poll
Tue Sep 2, 2008 9:57pm EDT

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorian leftist President Rafael Correa has the majority he needs to win a key September 28 referendum to pass a new constitution that would extend his authority over the Andean nation, a poll showed on Tuesday.

Independent pollster Santiago Perez, who is often hired by the government to measure approval ratings, said his poll showed that backing for the new constitution rose 3 percentage points to 56 percent. Opposition stood at 23 percent.

Correa, a former economy minister, needs more than 50 percent of votes to pass the new constitution.

The proposed constitution, drafted by government allies, would allow Correa to run for re-election immediately after his first four-year term and bolster his sway over the oil-producing country's economy.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. Why would the fascist nutball, incindiary views of a tiny minority merit articulation?

"A feeble opposition says the former college professor is amassing dictatorial powers and turning the country into a Cuban-style socialist state." --Rotters

"Opposition stood at 23 percent." Why, then, do they get to call Rafael Correa a would-be communist dictator, when there are no facts to support that view, and virtually no one in Ecuador believes it except the billionaire banana magnate who ran for president against Correa, and his employees, relatives and golf partners?

Rotters and the Associated Pukes must stay up late at night thinking of new and devious ways to turn pro-left facts sour, and these days that is a serious problem for the forces of evil. The pro-left facts keep coming thick and fast--92% approval rating for the new leftist president of Paraguay; a nearly 68% win for leftist Evo Morales in the referendum on his presidency; Honduras' president Manuel Zelaya giving the finger to Bush and the Corpos and joining the leftist Bolivarian trade group, ALBA; leftist Correa with a personal approval rating of 80%, and a comfortable majority for the new Constitution that will create a proper balance of power in favor of the majority--and all of them swiftly moving toward a Latin American "Common Market" (not including the U.S.), with the many leftist leaders of South America pulling the continent together, as an economic powerhouse, at long last.

What's a fascist 'news' agency to do--but try to plant the idea, in the midst of these democratic, leftist triumphs, that they're all communists and would-be dictators?

Furthermore, what the hell is Rotters doing promulgating this extremist, lying piece of shit opinion of Rafael Correa without quoting the source? Is it even true that the "opposition" thinks this? Who in the "opposition" said it? Why don't they make them own up to it, with a name and a quotation, as decent journalists would do?

Because they're rotters, that's why--indecent, lying, psyops tools for billionaire Corpos who murder and steal.

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It's interesting to analyze the fascist/Corpo mind, on the basis of Correa's 80% approval rating vs. the far rightwing view that he must be a communist. Fascist/Corpos are profoundly anti-democratic. (Think Bush/Cheney.) They think government exists to make them and their buds filthy rich and to permit them to solve their "labor problem" by chopping up labor leaders while alive and throwing their body parts into mass graves, as they do in Colombia, or by slaughtering 100,000 innocent people to get their oil. So, to them, mere majority rule--that the person with the most votes gets the office and the power--is a horrifying, dictatorial, communist idea.

For the record, Correa is routinely criticized by the left for his moderate views. He's trying to bring Ecuador into the 20th century. Not the 21st. The 20th. All the way from the 10th century--feudal serfdom--to a moderate, minimal, reasonable, democratically run government, with a moderate, minimal, reasonable standard of living for Ecuador's vast, dirt poor majority, and human and civil rights that are routine in European countries, although not so routine in the U.S. any more.

The Constitution will recognize indigenous rights to lands that were stolen from them, by U.S.-supported fascists, but it will not give them a veto over resource exploitation projects--merely a right to participate in the decision-making process. This moderate Correa view has risked alienating the social movements that put him in office. He is no radical, and not even close to being a communist. As for "dictator," Bush is a dictator. He shreds constitutions. Correa is putting Ecuador's constitution to a fracking vote of the people! Some "dictator"!

He's a "dictator" because he's popular? Because he's doing what most people want? That's called democracy! And, yes, goddammit, if the sovereign people of Ecuador were to choose communism democratically--if they decided, for instance, to split up the big land holdings, and give everyone an equal share of land, and run this small country like one big co-op--they have that right. The people are the king, in a democracy. Predatory capitalism is not the same thing as democracy, and, indeed, it is inimitable to democracy. Predatory capitalism--the kind of capitalism we see today--is feudal. The lords of capitalism own everything and enslave the rest of us. We really need to fight their poisonous, lying propaganda that the "freedom" of global corporate predators to murder, steal from, and oppress everyone else on earth is democracy! It is NOT.

In any case, Correa--like all of the new leftists in South America--is a moderate. They seek a creative, innovative balance of government control and trade, with a strong component of social justice, all founded on VERY democratic principles--that the people vote for the leaders in fair, honest, transparent elections; that the people write and vote on the constitution, the fundamental law of the land; that all are subject to the rule of law; and that the people rule, not the multinational corporations, not shitty little "emperors" like Bush, not the rich, not the guys with the most guns. The people, all of them. The sovereign people of the land are the rulers, and the leaders are their public servants.

What a concept, eh?

The rotters at Reuters are so corrupt, so far gone, so bought and paid for, that they don't know what democracy is. That's why they have promulgated the big banana magnate's view that it is communism and tyranny. That's why they stick this sentence in, legitimizing this extremist, radical fascist view, and claim that it's the view of the "opposition" without attributing it to anyone. Yeah, they call it a "feeble" minority. But they still promulgate it, anonymously, as if there must be some truth to it, when it is a bald-faced, fascist/Corpo LIE, very possibly invented, out of whole cloth, by their editors. We don't know. They name no one who holds this view.