Rafael Correa: If I died that day, they'd call it suicide

Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has given an exclusive interview to RT's Spanish channel. During the conversation he spoke about some inside facts of the recent coup attempt in Quito. The violent drama left five people dead. Its details are still unclear. There's no doubt it was an attempted coup, I will support my position with arguments a bit later," said Rafael Correa. "In our country the opposition can say whatever they like. It is believed here that being in the opposition means denying obvious things, they are even ready to argue that a circle has right-angles, and if I had died that day, they would have said that I committed suicide." "Presumably, a certain part of society -- in this case, armed people, national police -- expressed their discontent with the new law they haven't even read to the end," the president added. "The law is a good one, all this has happened because of misleading information." Speaking on how the takeover was organized, he emphasized that the attempt was well-planned. "They were not acting on their own. Their actions were co-ordinated by political groups -- that's what I would like to stress. Those groups stayed in the shadow, waiting for the outcome of this attempted coup d'etat. But the attempt failed."

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[nycworldsfair]

PRESIDENT CORREA DEMOCRATICLY ELECTED IS A BRAVE MAN , AND ALL THIS CONTROVERSY IS BECAUSE SOUTH AMERICA IS BECOMING BETTER WITH THIS KIND OF GOVERNMENTS ..

[gaynoboa]

Correa la mascara se te cayo, eres un traidor a la Patria das amnistia y dices que Nahik es honrado te hace falta la banda chora chica rosa. "ÑAÑO TE LO DIJE !!!! y te hiciste el pendejo" como te dijo tu disque rival tu hermano y le permitíste contratos millonarios, te la hechas de bravito y eres un afeminado como tu církul0 tu mismo estas cabando tu tumba corrupto de m13rda. Firma un ecuatoriano que votara en blanco en las proximas elecciones,

FUERA CORREA

[CODISgangPELIGRO]

Wait Whattt!!!!

[albertobands]

Notice that at the end of 90's the Ecuadorian economy crashed, and the bankers, some of who owned 98% of the TV channels and radio stations, fled with the banks cash, and hide in the US and other countries.

Did you know that? That is a fact.

[albertobands]

What people don't know is that most newspapers and the main TV channels are controlled by the few rich families running Ecuador. Thus, they can imprint whatever news benefits to them.Correa cracked this families by forcing them to pay taxes, which they never had in the past.

[nycworldsfair]

@holasoyoswaldo YES WE WANT SOME ONE LIKE GEORGE BUSH THE BEST PRECIDENT THAT FIXED THE COUNTRY..

[holasoyoswaldo]

@Face2Face1987 How can you be sure about that?

[holasoyoswaldo]

@nelu7591 Trust me, you would not like someone like him to run your country.

[holasoyoswaldo]

@nycworldsfair What the hell are you talking about?

[Face2Face1987]

RAFAEL CORREA IS THE BEST PRESIDENT THAT ECUADOR HAVE EVER HAD!! NO DOUBT :)

[virgendeguadalupeify]

tenga cuidado hermano democrata, que los demonios descendientes de cheroquis estan tramando algo para llevarse el petroleo de esa nacion hermana

[INDIOIRLANDES]

presidente... eres el mejor ya basta de esos ladrones que nos dominaban ahora si el cambio... no vivo en e cuador pero mi familia si i espero que el ecuador siga prosperando