Ecuador: Correa approval jumps 10 pts to 75% (!) in poll after police/RW coup attempt

[Peace Patriot]

10/4/10

Correa's big opinion poll boost

Jurgen Schuldt over at Memorias de Gregorio Samsa has all the details (LINK) of the opinion poll published by Santiago Perez OPE (one of Ecuador's main pollsters) with six screenshots of the published poll. Go there to get the details, but let's just note one datapoint to give you a taste:


September 25th 2010 (before the police protest/attempted coup last week): Positive Evaluation of Correa Government:
65%

October 2nd 2010 (after the police protest/attempted coup last week): Positive Evaluation of Correa Government:
75%


Go to here for more (LINK), including Correa's personal numbers.

UPDATE: Reliably witty mailer, reader 'MP' writes, "Just imagine where the polls would be if he were to knee someone in the nuts...."

http://www.incakolanews.blogspot.com/
LINKED TO: http://www.jurgenschuldt.com/2010/10/como-andan-las-cosas-por-el-ecuador.html

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What strikes me about this poll news--besides Correa's awesome approval rating even before the coup attempt--is the repeated disinformation in the corpo-fascist press, in numerous stories about the coup attempt in Ecuador, that Correa was down in the polls, increasingly unpopular, in trouble, blah, blah, blah.

So this is the deal in Latin America, for leftist leaders only: Unless you maintain a 70% approval rating, you are "increasingly unpopular", but if you do maintain a 70% or better approval rating, you are a "dictator."

Of course this corpo-fascist media "rule of thumb" doesn't apply to Colombia, where people get whacked by the military or its rightwing death squads for organizing a union or holding a peace protest or merely looking like a leftist, and where the rightwing president is said to have an 80% approval rating. THAT's democracy!

Anyway, just thought you'd like to know that it was utter bullshit that President Correa was in any kind of political trouble. And that the corpo-fascist narrative was likely a "piling on" narrative: 'Look, Ecuador in chaos! The cops rioting, and he's down in the polls, and he defaulted on our masters' loans, and austerity, inflation & protests, oh my! Austerity, inflation & protests, oh my! Hysteria, inflation & protests, oh my!'

In other words, they wanted a coup, and, because Correa has approval ratings in the 65% to 75% range (which they didn't tell you), they couldn't make it happen, no matter how hard they piled on. The corpo-fascist press behaved just like the agents provocateur on the police radios crying, "Kill Correa! Kill him!"--trying to push the planned chaos into an assassination coup, to serve whoever their masters were.

The 'news' has become like a black tornado spinning round the world and touching down wherever good government and democracy need to be destroyed for the profit of the rich. It scoops up whatever negative news is around, and swirls it together with invented garbage and the detritus of civilization, and tries to make a disaster out of mere disorder or out of normal government problems (as with the electricity shortage in Venezuela). After the tornado leaves, reality is restored: Correa with a 75% approval rating. Chavez with a big majority in the legislature (mindbogglingly "spun" as a Chavez loss).

[bemildred]

1. Nothing like a right-wing coup attempt to show you are doing a good job. nt

[Peace Patriot]

2. Yup! In fact, Correa said the following, in O. Stone's "South of the Border," when

Stone asked him what he thought of bad press he gets in the U.S. Correa replied, "I would be worried if they treated me well."

[EFerrari]

5. And Evo said that his worst political opponents were in the media., too. n/t

[EFerrari]

6. I didn't initially set out to see how the media treated this incident

but just to find out what happened. And a few minutes into it, how they were reporting it up here was so annoying that it was impossible to ignore. They tried to Hugo Chavez Rafael Correa.

[bemildred]

7. Trying to build on their "success" in Honduras, I think. nt

[EFerrari]

8. After Honduras, Correa himself said he was probably next. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

3. Example of the "tornado" (piling on) strategy of the corpo-fascist press...

See this eferrari thread:
"The official narrative of the corporati: he brought it on himself."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x42744

In the Los Angeles Slimes article that she posts is the very item itself--the "tornado"--the corpo-fascist press "piling on"--adding in IRRELEVANT things, like Correa's beneficial default on IMF bankster loans, to make it APPEAR that Correa is "in trouble,' even though this president had a 65% approval rating before the coup attempt (which they don't tell you), and a 75% approval rating now! (--which they also don't tell you). In my comment (#13) in eferrari's thread, I discuss this Slimey paragraph in detail.

[EFerrari]

4. Take that, presstitutes!

LOL

[rabs]

9. This will really give you a big LOL

On Sunday Hugo gave his usual speech. In it he referred to the opposition media in Ecuador and to CNN in particular.

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“¿Quién puede creer en una asonada policial por reivindicaciones salariales? Ya no hay duda de ello: otras fuerzas, otros intereses ocultos actuaron y siguen actuando en la sombra contra la Revolución Ciudadana”, sostuvo.

After asking who could belive that the police insurrection had been over salaries, he said there was no doubt that other forces, other hidden interests, acted that day and continue to act in the shadows against the Citizen's Revolution (in Ecuador).
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He added, "There are three (other) actors behind the scene, first are the media sewers in Ecuador, (which have) open support of their peers worldwide: CNN, for example, spoke of September 30 as a CONSTITUTIONAL COUP."

Agregó: “Tras bastidores, en primer término, están las cloacas mediáticas de Ecuador, con el abierto apoyo de sus pares en todo el mundo: CNN, por ejemplo, hablaba el 30 de septiembre de un golpe de Estado “constitucional””.

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In the same speech, Hugo tongue-in-cheek congratulated the people and government of Ecuador for breaking the record he held until Thursday.

He said it only took the Ecuadorans 12 hours to shatter the oligarchical and imperialistic plans to take away the people's decision to be free.

He was talking about the 48 hours it took the Venezuelan people to reinstall him in Miraflores after the 2002 failed coup.

http://andes.info.ec/politica/presidente-chavez-elogio-a-pueblo-ecuatoriano-por-record-en-hacer-trizas-a-oligarquia-32067.html

[EFerrari]

10. LOL. And after Evo kicked that guy

maybe his record will be in the negative hours. :rofl:

[Judi Lynn]

11. Obama reaffirms support to Ecuador's president

Obama reaffirms support to Ecuador's president
The Associated Press
Wednesday, October 6, 2010; 5:58 PM

WASHINGTON -- The White House says President Barack Obama has called Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa to urge that tensions in that country be resolved through democratic means.

The call came Wednesday after the Andean nation was briefly paralyzed last week by a police revolt that Correa called a coup.

Correa is an ally of leftist presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia, who accused the United States of being behind the bloody revolt that spun out of control in Ecuador.

The White House says that Obama reiterated to Correa that the United States supports him and Ecuador's democratic institutions.

Correa has brought unusual political stability to Ecuador, a traditionally volatile nation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100605828.html

[Judi Lynn]

12. Isn't it amusing the opposition managed to gain support for the progressive President. n/t