From The Heritage Foundation and AEI:
Foreign Policy/International Affairs
The Chávez Model Threatens Ecuador
by José R. Cárdenas
American Enterprise Institute
March 23, 2011
Given Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez’s theatrical obsession with the limelight, it is easy to overlook the activities of other radical populist leaders in the Andean region. This is a dangerous oversight. In Ecuador, operating under the radar, Rafael Correa is imposing his own autocratic vision for his country’s path to salvation. In doing so, he has made common cause with rogue international actors and criminal groups who care not a whit about the interests of the Ecuadorean people, but only about maximizing their destructive agendas. The Obama administration should disabuse itself of the notion that Correa is someone “with whom we can do business” and instead increase scrutiny of his activities in this critical region of the Western Hemisphere.
URL: www.aei.org/docLib/LAO-2011-03-No-2-g.pdf
Foreign Policy/International Affairs
The Chávez Model Threatens Ecuador
by José R. Cárdenas
American Enterprise Institute
March 23, 2011
Given Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez’s theatrical obsession with the limelight, it is easy to overlook the activities of other radical populist leaders in the Andean region. This is a dangerous oversight. In Ecuador, operating under the radar, Rafael Correa is imposing his own autocratic vision for his country’s path to salvation. In doing so, he has made common cause with rogue international actors and criminal groups who care not a whit about the interests of the Ecuadorean people, but only about maximizing their destructive agendas. The Obama administration should disabuse itself of the notion that Correa is someone “with whom we can do business” and instead increase scrutiny of his activities in this critical region of the Western Hemisphere.
URL: www.aei.org/docLib/LAO-2011-03-No-2-g.pdf
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