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CORREA, RAFAEL Newly elected president of Ecuador, b. 1964 -.
Below, one of his first acts as president was to fire the current head of the military.
Rafael Correa joins an important number of leftists leaders in Latin America. Below, entry banner for the recent Sao Paulo conference on Social Change in Latin America, from left, Correa, Nestor Kirtchner of Argentina, Evo Morales of Bolivia, Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Fidel Castro of Cuba, Luis Lula of Brazil, and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua.
This weekend, October 6, 2007, Correa proclaimed to the transnational oil companies, "Our oil is ours!" They didn't want to hear it.
On October 23, 2007, Rafael Correa announced that he would re-negociate the hated U.S. military base in Ecuador established under his predesessor, and if the U.S. wanted to keep their base in his country he would demand an Ecuadorian military base in Miami, Florida. Way to go, Rafael!
Also in October of 2007, he announced the banning of "Halloween" in Ecuador, calling it a United States imperialistic mockery of the Latin American tradition of Día de Muertos, Day of the Dead. Good words, Rafael.
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