ATTACK ON CORREA!!!

Correa, 47, speaking from the balcony of the Carondelet palace after his rescue, told hundreds of cheering backers that Thursday "was the saddest day of my life." He said 27 of his special forces bodyguards had been injured. Correa thanked the supporters who had converged on the hospital "ready to die to defend democracy." His loyalists had hurled stones at police who repelled them with tear gas. He said the uprising was not just a pay dispute. "There were lots of infiltrators, dressed as civilians, and we know where they were from," the U.S.-trained leftist economist shouted.

Both Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia alleged in Buenos Aires on Friday that the United States was somehow behind the police rebellion.

Like his leftist ally Chavez, Correa has drastically cut royalties to multinational oil companies in favor of his people, discouraging direct foreign investment while courting such nations as Iran and Russia.



I'm sure those multinational oil companies & the governments they represent had nothing to do with any of this. We would never support such a thing unless you count the Guatemalan coups of 54, 61 & 63 or the September 11th attacks in Chile, 1973 or the 1953 coup in Iran or in Panama in 1981 & 1989 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama or Haiti in 59, 71, 86, 90, 93 & 2010? or Bolivia in 68, 71, & 2008 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26724256/ or Venezuala in 2002 & 2006 . Not to mention the "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba in 1961 or O.I.L. (Operation Iraqi Liberation) in 2003. The list of things our corporatocracy would never do goes on & on.