And in Ecuador, Rafael Correa held a victory rally Monday following his apparent victory in Sunday’s presidential election. Correa vowed to oppose a new trade agreement with the United States and not to renew a lease for a U.S. military air base in Ecuador. He also criticized the U.S.-backed neoliberal economic model.
Rafael Correa: “The model that is being applied, not only in Ecuador, but throughout Latin America, has been disastrous. This neoliberalism has generated unemployment, it has privatized, and it has converted into merchandise the fundamental human rights like health, education and social security.”
Final election results from Ecuador are still not in. With 74 percent of the polling stations tallied as of Monday night, Rafael Correa had 61 percent of the vote.