October 17,  2010.Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, said he has proof of who was behind the September 30 attempted coup.  The guilty parties include Fidel Araujo, who is close to former Ecuadoran President Lucio Gutiérrez. In an interview for the international news department of the NTN 24 chain, whose headquarters are in Bogotá, Correa stated that U.S. President Barack Obama “didn’t have anything to do with it.”  However, he said that “power groups” in the United States couldn’t be excluded, for they may have intervened in the attempt to destabilize Ecuador’s democratic Government.">October 17,  2010.Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, said he has proof of who was behind the September 30 attempted coup.  The guilty parties include Fidel Araujo, who is close to former Ecuadoran President Lucio Gutiérrez. In an interview for the international news department of the NTN 24 chain, whose headquarters are in Bogotá, Correa stated that U.S. President Barack Obama “didn’t have anything to do with it.”  However, he said that “power groups” in the United States couldn’t be excluded, for they may have intervened in the attempt to destabilize Ecuador’s democratic Government.">

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Correa Says He Has Proof of Who Was behind the Attempted Coup

October 17,  2010.Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, said he has proof of who was behind the September 30 attempted coup.  The guilty parties include Fidel Araujo, who is close to former Ecuadoran President Lucio Gutiérrez.

In an interview for the international news department of the NTN 24 chain, whose headquarters are in Bogotá, Correa stated that U.S. President Barack Obama “didn’t have anything to do with it.”  However, he said that “power groups” in the United States couldn’t be excluded, for they may have intervened in the attempt to destabilize Ecuador’s democratic Government.

He said that, even though the Government doesn’t have proof, there is evidence that extreme right-wing “foundations” are financing groups opposed to the Ecuadoran Government.  “We have evidence of this.  We have bank accounts and records of money transfers,” he stated.

Concerning the tapes of police radio messages, the Head of State said that some of the voices had already been identified but that, as a security measure, their identity couldn’t be revealed while the investigation was continuing.

“The revolt had very little to do with wage demands [by the police].  It was a political conspiracy that made use of a hard core of policemen who detest the Government,” Correa emphasized.

He reiterated that not all of the police took part in the mutiny; there were exceptions, such as the Presidential security guard, whose members risked their lives to save that of the Head of State.  “Around 200 of the 1000 policemen who rebelled wanted to do damage and attack me,” he said.

In addition, the Head of State pointed out, “Everything [was] prepared.  We even have a witness whom they tried to pay to shoot the President for them.”

CUBADEBATE. A CubaNews translation by Mary Todd.Edited by Walter Lippmann.

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