MB Civic

“A New York Times editorial in November 2007 entitled ‘Authoritarians in the Andes’ summed up the foreign policy establishment view that Correa, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela were ‘increasingly interested in grabbing power for themselves.’ For Correa and Morales, wrote the Times editorial board, ‘their confrontational approach is also threatening to rend Bolivia and Ecuador’s fragile social and political stability.’ The Times (and Washington’s foreign policy establishment) have proven to be wrong, as Ecuador and Bolivia are now more politically stable than they have been for decades. (Ecuador has had nine presidents over the last 15 years). They are also more democratic than they have ever been” – Weisbrot in The Guardian/UK .. read more