• Submitted by: manso
• international
• 09 / 30 / 2010

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From: Alliance for Global Justice <afgj@...>

To: walterlx@... Subject: Coup in Ecuador! Take Action! Date: Sep 30, 2010 12:13 PM. Coup in Ecuador! Urgent Action Needed!

We have received reports that a coup is taking place in Ecuador. The situation is in flux. There are reports that President Rafael Correa disappeared after meeting with the police but other reports say he is in the hospital surrounded by police after a tear gas attack. All the airports are closed; the Congress has been taken over by the police; banks are closed.

There is still hope, however, that that the coup can be stopped in its tracks. The top army commander in Ecuador says the military remains loyal to President Correa.

This coup in Ecuador, the second ALBA country now to suffer a coup, is the direct result of the US government support for the June 28, 2010, coup in Honduras. We cannot allow our government to again support anti-democratic forces in Latin America.

Contacts:

To contact Senators and Representatives:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

To contact the State Department:
Fax: 202-647-8947, Voice: 202 647-8947, or Email: Maria Otero, Under Secretary
for Democracy and Global Affairs, c/o Laura Pena, Assistant, PenaL@...

Dr. Arturo Valenzuela, Assist. Sec. of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs:
ValenzuelaAA@...; Ambassador Craig Kelly, Principal Deputy Asst./
Secretary, Western Office of Hemisphere Affairs: KellyC@... (Fax:
202-647-0834)

To contact White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact and White House Comment Line 202-456-1414; Dan
Restrepo, Special Asst. to the President, Western Hemisphere Affairs,
drestreop@...

Source: Walter Lipman, Yahoo Groups