Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa on WikiLeaks Secret Cables, September Coup, and Controversial REDD

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Secret U.S. diplomatic cables recently published by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks revealed new details about how the U.S. manipulated last year's U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen. Ecuador was one of the nations that lost funding after it refused to sign on to the U.S.-led Copenhagen Accord. At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Democracy Now! asks Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa about the latest WikiLeaks revelations on how the United States denied his country aid for failing to sign on to the Accord, the failed coup against him earlier this year, and his support for the controversial carbon market-based forest protection scheme known as REDD.

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• Rafael Correa
• Ecuadoran
• ecuador
• President
• coup
• wikileaks
• copenhagen accord
• REDD
• carbon markets
• democracy now
• amy goodman

[rodrigovilla22]

That's my president.... I'm so proud to have such smart leader... spnish?english? french? you choose he will answer any question without any hesitation to express his ideology and what he really believe in.... Come on Correa

[TheCanMan888]

smart answers by rafael

[MonicaLuzuriagaAE34]

BEST PRESIDENT EVER...!!!!!

[spacealwaysgiguiri]

@Pantaleon70 jaajajjaaa, you are a joke man... the truth is ecuador is becoming a state of right not a state of opinion where impunity reigned for centuries. 189 inde in prison?? where you got that from? Mainstream media owned by 1 or 2 bankers. jaja. They are in prison because they destroyed public property, blocked roads, and in one case they killed a man in the protest. Even if your protest is fair, doesn't mean you should not be held responsible for these crimes.

[spacealwaysgiguiri]

@MrTervic well, who told you rafel correa was a communist??? Probably the mainstream media right?? I am sure. The problem is these leftist governments are a threat to the U.S and so the mainstream media owned by capitalist from the right do everything in their power to portray them as communist monsters... He is a good person and he is doing so much good to our country to the point that the world crisis has not yet affected us!!

[puertorricane]

Rafael Correa is the new leader of latin america and a smart mofo

[puertorricane]

ViVa Ecuador Vva Ecuadorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[puertorricane]

Viva ecuador

[puertorricane]

lol anybody that really gives this bullshit any credibility than fuck yu and sucm my dick you bitch ass mother fockers

[wardydave]

correa is an inspiration

[PEDRONOVARO]

@MrTervic I totally agree with you. Correa must change his awkard points of view or simply leave...

[PEDRONOVARO]

@rodrigovilla22 You're such a jerk...Can't you see your Correa answered everything in Spanish after having received the proper translation from a simultaneous translator who wrote down in Spanish what he needed to understand and the voice you hear is from someone else, except Correa...?