WNU #962: Latin American Leaders React to "Giant's Toppling"

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #962, September 28, 2008

1. Ecuador: Easy Win for New Constitution
2. Latin America: Reactions to "Giant's Toppling"
3. Mexico: Teacher Strikes Continue
4. Haiti: US Holds Up Deportations
5. Links to alternative sources on: Bolivia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Haiti

ISSN#: 1084-922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com. It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/

*1. Ecuador: Easy Win for New Constitution
According to exit polls, Ecuadoran voters overwhelmingly backed a proposal for a new Constitution in a referendum held Sept. 28. The Santiago Pérez Investigación y Estudios polling firm showed 66.4% of voters supporting the measure, while Cedatos-Gallup put the proportion at 70%. President Rafael Correa, who had called for the new charter, said the vote was a "new historic triumph" and led supporters in chanting: "The people united will never be defeated." The center-left president got the results while visiting his hometown, Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest and most prosperous city. Santiago Pérez's exit poll showed Guayaquil voters backing the new Constitution, despite fears by Correa's supporters that the city might become an opposition center in the same way that Santa Cruz has become a focus of opposition to Bolivian president Evo Morales, a Correa ally. [...]

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