Ecuador's former president Rafael Correa denied on Tuesday he was orchestra...
BRUSSELS - Ecuador’s former president Rafael Correa denied on Tuesday he was orchestrating a coup against the government from his self-imposed exile in Belgium, after being accused of stoking the worst unrest in years in the Andean oil producer.
“They are such liars ... They say I am so powerful that with an iPhone from Brussels I could lead the protests,” he told Reuters, holding up his mobile telephone. “People couldn’t take it anymore, that’s the reality,” he said, referring to austerity measures brought in by Moreno with support from the IMF.
In a defiant national television address on Monday evening, Moreno, who has left the capital Quito, said he would not back down on the fuel price hike in the face of what he called a “detribalization plan” orchestrated by Correa and Maduro. “Why don’t they announce early elections,” he said, calling on Ecuadoreans to exercise the right to resist what he called government oppression.
“From there, we would need a constituent assembly,” he said, although he declined to give details about any future government policies. “This isn’t my plan, I am obliged to do this.”He denied any direct links to Venezuela’s Maduro, who France, the United States and several Latin American nations accuse of installing a dictatorship as a political and economic crisis deepens in Venezuela.
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