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Ecuador in Chaos

by Haliku » Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:26 pm

A heads up to anyone planning a visit to Ecuador soon. Its a bit rough in Quito right now.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." --Friedrich Nietzsche
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by blazin » Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:43 pm

FortMental wrote:Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan's corrupt president
Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's insane president


No, no, no. You got this all wrong. It's Karzai that's crazy, haven't you heard?

Afghan President Hamid Karzai was diagnosed as manic depressive, according to U.S. intelligence reports. "He's on his meds, he's off his meds," Bob Woodward quotes U.S. Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry as saying.
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by sharperblue » Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:53 pm

FortMental wrote:From the article:
Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, said in a Twitter message that "they are trying to oust President Correa."


Not to distract from events in Quito, I'm always amazed at the lengths the American press will go to hammer home a point. After a while, we don't even see this sort of thing because it pervades every aspect of our media. I guess it's not enough to note that Chavez is THE president of Venezuela and although we all know that Chavez is a leftist, I wasn't aware that Venezuela also had a rightist president. Thanks Associated Press!

Note that, in the same article Peru's president, an avowed Socialist, gets no such treatment:

Peru's president, Alan Garcia, announced that he was shutting the country's border with Ecuador until Correa's "democratic authority" was re-established.


I thought of a few modifiers for the American Press corps to use when mentioning other presidents:

Sarkozy: France's little president
Medvyedev: Russia's puppet president
Hu Jintao: America's real president
Tarja Halonen: Finland's ugly president
Mahmoud Ahmeninajad: Irans psycho president
Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president
Silvio Berlusconi: Italy's Italian president
Felipe Calderon: Mexico's useless president
Barak Obama: America's Muslim president
Daniel Ortega: Nicaragua's terrorist president
Paul Kagame: Rwanda's black president
Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan's corrupt president
Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's insane president


D*mmit, FortMental, you know d*mn well I can't handle that degree of truth before 4pm. Especially hung-over. way to be considerate.
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by Joe White » Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:49 pm

hmm. that's troubling. I have a friend there, right now.

Thanks for posting
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by John Duffield » Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:31 am

Ecuador is on the bare edge of lawlessness even when the cops aren't on strike. Can't imagine now. You sure wouldn't want to get lost on your way to/from the airport. This is gonna be a time when extra money for a secure hotel and a good local guide in the mountains is well spent.
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by bird » Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:17 pm

FortMental wrote:From the article:
Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, said in a Twitter message that "they are trying to oust President Correa."


Not to distract from events in Quito, I'm always amazed at the lengths the American press will go to hammer home a point. After a while, we don't even see this sort of thing because it pervades every aspect of our media. I guess it's not enough to note that Chavez is THE president of Venezuela and although we all know that Chavez is a leftist, I wasn't aware that Venezuela also had a rightist president. Thanks Associated Press!

Note that, in the same article Peru's president, an avowed Socialist, gets no such treatment:

Peru's president, Alan Garcia, announced that he was shutting the country's border with Ecuador until Correa's "democratic authority" was re-established.


I thought of a few modifiers for the American Press corps to use when mentioning other presidents:

Sarkozy: France's little president
Medvyedev: Russia's puppet president
Hu Jintao: America's real president
Tarja Halonen: Finland's ugly president
Mahmoud Ahmeninajad: Irans psycho president
Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president
Silvio Berlusconi: Italy's Italian president
Felipe Calderon: Mexico's useless president
Barak Obama: America's Muslim president
Daniel Ortega: Nicaragua's terrorist president
Paul Kagame: Rwanda's black president
Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan's corrupt president
Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's insane president


You forgot one.
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian's Terrorist President
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by Buz Groshong » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:11 pm

bird wrote:
FortMental wrote:From the article:
Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, said in a Twitter message that "they are trying to oust President Correa."


Not to distract from events in Quito, I'm always amazed at the lengths the American press will go to hammer home a point. After a while, we don't even see this sort of thing because it pervades every aspect of our media. I guess it's not enough to note that Chavez is THE president of Venezuela and although we all know that Chavez is a leftist, I wasn't aware that Venezuela also had a rightist president. Thanks Associated Press!

Note that, in the same article Peru's president, an avowed Socialist, gets no such treatment:

Peru's president, Alan Garcia, announced that he was shutting the country's border with Ecuador until Correa's "democratic authority" was re-established.


I thought of a few modifiers for the American Press corps to use when mentioning other presidents:

Sarkozy: France's little president
Medvyedev: Russia's puppet president
Hu Jintao: America's real president
Tarja Halonen: Finland's ugly president
Mahmoud Ahmeninajad: Irans psycho president
Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president
Silvio Berlusconi: Italy's Italian president
Felipe Calderon: Mexico's useless president
Barak Obama: America's Muslim president
Daniel Ortega: Nicaragua's terrorist president
Paul Kagame: Rwanda's black president
Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan's corrupt president
Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's insane president


You forgot one.
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian's Terrorist President


That sort of bigoted bullshit belongs in Off-Route.
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by Buz Groshong » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:13 pm

...as does "Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president."
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by Boriss Andean » Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:08 pm

Everything's back to normal again. Army's on the streets. President Correa is back! :)
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by bird » Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:24 am

Buz Groshong wrote:...as does "Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president."

I was trying to keep it "fair and balanced"
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by Buz Groshong » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:53 pm

bird wrote:
Buz Groshong wrote:...as does "Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president."

I was trying to keep it "fair and balanced"


Good point.
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Re: Ecuador in Chaos

by Haliku » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:54 pm

Thanks for the on the scene update. Ecuador was very enjoyable when I was there in 07. I'd hate to see it slide backwards after all the progress that has been made.

BTW I do not appreciate the highjack of this thread for 'material' that should of been in PnP (or whatever it is called today).

Cheers!

HIGH EXPEDITIONS wrote:Everything's back to normal again. Army's on the streets. President Correa is back! :)
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