Ecuador's Correa returns to fight referendum campaign

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Source: AFP

Ex-president Rafael Correa returned to Ecuador from Belgium on Friday to lead the campaign against a referendum called by the government effectively to prevent his re-election.

Videos posted on Twitter showed an ebullient Correa addressing cheering supporters from atop an open truck at the head of a cavalcade of vehicles shortly after his arrival in the southwestern port city of Guayaquil.

Correa is locked in a battle with his successor Lenin Moreno for control of their deeply divided leftist ruling Country Alliance party.

"They said he would not come back. They said he was afraid to return. The New History of Ecuador begins here. Here are the real people. Your people!" posted lawmaker Carlos Viteri, who accompanied Correa.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ecuadors-correa-returns-fight-referendum-campaign-175719717.html

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Correa can't let go.

After Moreno gets blamed for the deficits created by the decline in oil revenues, Rafael will run for President in the next election cycle. Just as planned.

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1. "Here are the real people."

As opposed to those fake people, non-people, over there.

Let's hope the dehumanizing rhetoric was a result of bad translation. Perhaps he said "royal people", as opposed to commoners or bourgeoisie. At least they're all "real" people.