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Related: About this forumThousands protest plan to end term limits for Ecuador leader
Thousands ignored heavy rain to march in Ecuador's capital Thursday to protest constitutional changes that would allow indefinite re-election of the president and other officials as well as legislation to alter labor and land ownership rules.
The march organized by indigenous communities, unions and student groups was largely peacefully, though small bands of activists clashed with police after the demonstration.
President Rafael Correa, an economist who identifies himself as a follower of 21st century socialism, is pushing a package of constitutional changes that would end term limits for all elected officials. Passage is considered likely because his Alianza Pais party holds 100 of the National Assembly's 137 seats.
Correa, who was first elected in 2006 and would have to leave office in 2017 without the change, has said he would seek another term only if he felt his "revolution" was threatened. He is popular among Ecuadoreans for his government's generous social spending but is widely criticized for intolerance of dissent.
http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-protest-plan-end-term-limits-ecuador-leader-024347993.html
Decadent, ugly, empty, grotesque, pointless blobs of flesh. What the hell are they? They are a disgrace to the human race. Hideous. Scums. Sociopaths. Trying to destroy the country even more, trying to bring back deeper poverty for those who are struggling, suffering now. #### them all.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)of whom you speak?
Zorro
(15,740 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)that guy to stay in office--seeing as he's inhabiting the small back bedroom at his London embassy apartment!
Zorro
(15,740 posts)I don't think Correa thought out this "fuck you GB and USA" move all the way through.
I'm sure he's annoying the hell out of the staff.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Groups not known for supporting "fascist scum".
Zorro
(15,740 posts)to qualify as fascist scum. And if you disagree then you're fascist scum, too.
So sez the LatAm forum's fascist scum maven.
MADem
(135,425 posts)take "extraordinary powers of decree" or prevent access by the local population to the internet ... it's all for the "good of the people" of course! Those "people" are apparently not smart enough, nor sophisticated enough, to know what is "good" for them, themselves!
Zorro
(15,740 posts)The loudmouths that constantly screech about pervasive US interference in LatAm affairs (because, ya know, the US government always oppresses the poor and indigenous, and always promotes capitalist elitism) are really displaying an insultingly patronizing attitude about the general intelligence of the citizens in those countries.