SOA Graduate Involved in Coup Attempt in Ecuador

[Judi Lynn]

SOA Graduate Involved in Coup Attempt in Ecuador
Written by Lisa Sullivan
Saturday
Oct 09th.

A School of the Americas graduate has been charged for last Thursday's unsuccessful coup attempt in Ecuador. Colonel Manuel E. Rivadeneira Tello, a graduate of the SOA's combat arms training course, is one of three police officials being investigated for negligence, rebellion and attempted assassination of the president.

Rivadeneira was the commander of the barracks where President Correa was attacked by protesting police. The injured Correa was taken to a police hospital were he held hostage by police who threatened to kill him if he escaped. After 12 hours, 500 elite forces stormed the hospital and organized a fiery rescue. By the end of the day 4 people lay dead and over 200 wounded.

This is the second coup attempt led by SOA graduates in a little over a year. The June 2009 in Honduras led by SOA graduates General Vasquez Velasquez and General Prince Suazo was successful in overthrowing President Manuel Zelaya. At the time, President Correa expressed concern that this opened the possibility of future coups in the continent acknowledging that he might be a possible target..

The defense of Ecuador's democracy was achieved by its citizens, who poured into the streets in defense of their popular president. Their voices were joined by an international chorus of support for Correa, including the OAS, UNASUR and Secretary of State Clinton. Ecuadorians, however, were not convinced that the U.S. was an innocent bystander. A poll indicated that over 50% of Ecuadorians felt that the U.S. had some involvement in the coup based, perhaps, on experience in their country where evidence has pointed to past U.S. involvement in coups and presidential deaths.

More:
http://www.soaw.org/presente/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=328&Itemid=63

[Judi Lynn]

1. The Ecuadorian Coup: Its Larger Meaning

The Ecuadorian Coup: Its Larger Meaning
By James Petras.
Saturday, Oct 9, 2010

The abortive military-police coup in Ecuador, which took place on September 30, has raised numerous questions about the role of the US and its allies among the traditional oligarchy and the leftist social movements, Indian organizations and their political parties.

While President Correa and all governments in Latin America, and significant sectors of the Ecuadorian public described the violent actions as a coup, the principle organ of Wall Street -- The Wall Street Journal -- described it as a "police protest". Spoke persons for Goldman Sachs and the Council of Foreign Relations referred to the police and military power grab against the democratically elected government as a self-induced "political crises" of the President. While the coup was underway the "Indian" movement CONAIE, launched a manifesto condemning the government, while the "Indian" party Pachakutik supported the ouster of the President and backed the police coup as a "just act of public servants".

In summary, the imperial backers of the coup , sectors of the Ecuadorian elite and Indian movement downplayed the violent police uprising as a coup in order to justify their support for it as just another "legitimate economic protest". In other words, the victim of the elite coup was converted into the repressor of the peoples' will. The factual question of whether their was a coup or not, is central to deciding whether the government was justified in repressing the police uprising and whether in fact the democratic system was endangered.

The Facts about the Coup

The police did not simply "protest" against economic polices, they seized the National Assembly and attempted to occupy public buildings and media outlets. The air force -- or at least those sectors collaborating with the police -- seized the airport in Quito, concerted actions seizing and blocked strategic transport networks.. President Correa was assaulted and seized and kept hostage under police guard by scores of heavily armed police, who violently resisted the Special Forces who eventually freed the president resulting in scores of wounded and ten deaths. Clearly the leaders of the police uprising had more in mind that a simple "protest" over cancelled bonuses -- they sought to overthrow the president and were willing to use their firepower to carry it off. The initial economic demands of public sector employees were used by the coup leaders as a springboard to oust the regime.

More:
http://www.drugpolicycentral.com/bot/article/axisoflogic5339.htm

[Judi Lynn]

2. SOA graduate charged in Ecuador coup attempt

SOA graduate charged in Ecuador coup attempt

Submitted by WW4 Report on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 00:51. A School of the Americas graduate has been charged for last week's unsuccessful coup attempt in Ecuador. Col. Manuel E. Rivadeneira Tello, a graduate of the SOA's combat arms training course, is one of three police officials being investigated for negligence, rebellion and attempted assassination of the president.

Rivadeneira was the commander of the barracks where President Correa was attacked by protesting police. The injured Correa was taken to a police hospital were he held hostage by police who threatened to kill him if he escaped. After 12 hours, 500 elite military troops stormed the hospital and organized a rescue. By the end of the day four people were dead and over 200 wounded.

This is the second coup attempt led by SOA graduates in a little over a year. The June 2009 in Honduras led by SOA graduates Gen. Vásquez Velásquez and General Prince Suazo was successful in overthrowing President Manuel Zelaya. At the time, President Correa expressed concern that this opened the possibility of future coups in the continent acknowledging that he might be a possible target..

The defense of Ecuador's democracy was achieved by its citizens, who poured into the streets in defense of their president. Their voices were joined by an international chorus of support for Correa, including the OAS, UNASUR and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ecuadorans, however, were not convinced that the US was an not involved. A poll indicated that over 50% of Ecuadorans felt that the US had some involvement in the coup.

More:
http://ww4report.com/node/9174

[Zorro]

3. LA VERDAD DEL BRUTAL MILITAR AL HOSPITAL DE LA POLICIA

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:16:27 -0500

La verdad.

El señor presidente nunca estuvo en calidad de secuestrado, estuvo siendo atendido por el personal médico del hospital de la Policía, después de que de una manera prepotente en vez de conciliadora realiza el desafío incoherente de que lo maten si son valientes, nadie quería matarlo ni derrocar al régimen, es así que desde el interior del Hospital el dio varias declaraciones vía telefónica en múltiples ocasiones del día.

Minutos antes del salvaje asalto militar a esta casa de salud (ojo, no cuartel policial) con armas de grueso calibre y municiones reales en donde se encuentran mujeres, niños y ancianos la mayoría de ellos graves, pues nadie va a un hospital de vacaciones, con diferentes dolencias y que por la gran lluvia de gases y la balacera sin medida resultaron con asfixia y crisis nerviosas, ya se estaba cantando el Himno a la Policía Nacional y preparada la calle de honor por la que se disponía a salir el Sr. Presidente para ser trasladado al Palacio de Gobierno, por tanto, la incursión fue provocada por este cobarde para ganar protagonismo, hacerse la víctima y mantener su postura de prepotencia.

Compañero transmite este mensaje a todos tus contactos para que sepan la verdad y no como lo dicen que fue un secuestro y mucho menos un intento golpista y si estuviste dentro del Hospital cuéntale al mundo como pasó la real situación.

VALOR DISCIPLINA Y LEALTAD

Dr. Fernando Vargas M.
Bioquímico Farmacéutico
Coordinador de Medicinas e Insumos Médicos
Hospital Quito No.1 de la Policía Nacional.
Telf: 2443218 ext 1077

[Downwinder]

4. And the photographs were all of a TV setup.

[Judi Lynn]

5. You betcha! Also part of the setup were the bodyguard who was killed standing right next to him,

the bullet holes in the car he was riding in, the photos of that, including the hole in the passenger's side window shield where he was sitting, as well as the cars in front of and behind his car.

Also bogus, the videos shot of the police and his bodyguards standing outside the hospital (I think at the emergency room door, or where ever they had his car and were attempting to bring him out and get him in his car and back to his quarters, those men who were ducking bullets, hiding behind large columns, and their police shields under as bullets whizzed by, knocked out windows above them, and on and on and on.

Someone already posted some videos several days ago. Sure, they were also part of the pretended emergency, just as the right-wing perverts in Ecuador have claimed. You can always trust the right-wing. If you're insane. If you are criminally insane!

They all long for the days of around the clock torture from the military juntas in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, all the dead victims floating in the oceans and rivers and lakes. They want to bring it all back, will bend all efforts to usher the world back into the past, back into hell where they'll be in charge again.

Human wastes. Goblins, fat, pasty, lumpy, steaming waddling vampires. They're smelling up the whole planet.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Oh, yes, just remembered when seeing this article. They've got audios, too, of the cops

talking about killing him. All a Correa scheme, too, apparently!

Rabs posted a link the other evening with a couple of links of the cops, some talking about killing Correa, and others yelling at them, with a whole lot of "putas" and "madre" and "maricon" and you name it going on. They were dead serious.

Here's a story CNN did on it, and clearly that was concocted by Correa, as well, like that dipstick doctor at the police hospital apparently would have everyone think:

Police discussed killing Ecuador's president, radio transmissions showBy the CNN Wire Staff
October 6, 2010 -- Updated 1901 GMT (0301 HKT)

(CNN) -- Rogue national police who held Ecuador's president captive for 11 hours last week talked about killing him, according to an audio recording the state-run Andes news agency said were police radio transmissions.

President Rafael Correa has called Thursday's police uprising an attempted coup, a characterization supported Wednesday by Jose Miguel Insulza, the secretary general of the Organization of American States. Police had taken to the streets to protest government austerity measures they said would limit bonuses and compensation.

Correa had gone to meet with some of the protesters but was surrounded by a heckling crowd that jostled him and hurled insults. Someone then fired a tear gas canister at Correa and a man was seen on TV video punching the president and trying to yank his gas mask off.

Correa was led away and taken to a hospital, where he was held until the military attacked the police and liberated the president several hours later.

More:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/06/ecuador.president.threats/?hpt=T1