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기사 내용은 97년 이후 쫒겨난 대통령이 3명이 될 정도로 정정 불안...
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이번 대통령은 민중들의 지지로 자리에 올랐는데 신자유주의자로 변신했구요,
탄핵당하지 않기 위해 과거 쫒겨난 대통령의 정당과의 연합, 이를 위한 대법원 재구성, 대법원을 자기 사람들로 채울려는 의회와 대통령의 계속된 싸움(다른 곳에서 본 내용), 그리고 대법원의 재 해산 등의 사건이 있었답니다.
부통령이 승계했는데 민중들이 이를 지지할 지 안할지는 모른다네요.
군 경이 돌아섰구요, 그 촉매는 의회의 탄핵과 민중들의 시위 및 2사람의 사망 등이었던 것 같습니다.
저번 사회포럼때 만난 프랑스 철학자 라비카는 챠베스의 예를 들면서 남미는 군인들 일부가 신자주의에 반대하는 민중들과 함께 하고 있다는 이야기를 하던데 에콰도르에도 그런 군인들이 있는지 모르겠네요.
저번 사회포럼 때 에콰도르 농민운동가들(유명한 원주민농민 조직인 코나이와는 다른 농민조직 출신) 3사람을 만났는데 이들도 이번 싸움에 가담을 했을 것이라 생각하니 기분이 묘하네요. 당시 이들은 자국내 운동에 대해 매우 자신감이 있어 보였습니다.
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OGOTÁ, Colombia, April 20 - President Lucio Gutiérrez of Ecuador fled his presidential palace on Wednesday after the Congress, meeting in special session, voted to remove him. The Congress then swore in Vice President Alfredo Palacio, a 66-year-old cardiologist, to replace Mr. Gutiérrez, 48, a former army colonel who had faced mounting street protests against what critics called an illegal overhaul of the Supreme Court.
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Mr. Gutiérrez, who took office in January 2003, became the third president since 1997 to be ousted from power in the small but oil-rich Andean country, which has close economic ties to the United States. In 1997, Abdalá Bucaram was declared mentally unfit to govern and fled into exile. In 2000, President Jamil Mahuad was ousted in a coup supported by Mr. Gutiérrez, then an army colonel.
Ecuadorean protesters accused all three of corruption, mismanagement and a strong-arm governing style.
"Today, the dictatorship, the immorality, the arrogance and the fear have ended," Dr. Palacio said in a speech broadcast on Colombia's Caracol radio network. "From today, we will restore a republic with a government of the people."
Dr. Palacio did not say whether he would call new elections. It was also not clear if the majority of Congress and the Ecuadorean public would support him as he tries to steer the country out of paralysis. Ecuador does not have a Supreme Court - the Congress disbanded it on Sunday - and its myriad political parties are bitterly divided.
"Logic would have it that Palacio would stay the year and a half that remains, organize elections and construct the judicial system," said Adrián Bonilla, a political analyst in Quito, the capital.
Mr. Gutiérrez fled the presidential palace in a military helicopter, infuriating protesters who assumed he would flee the country, as have other former leaders. Demonstrators then closed down Quito's international airport to prevent his escape, while the attorney general's office announced that a warrant had been issued for his arrest for having ordered troops to use violence to put down anti-government demonstrations.
But Wednesday evening, Brazil issued a statement saying that Mr. Gutiérrez was in that country's embassy in Quito and that the Foreign Ministry was making the necessary arrangements to grant him asylum.
Mr. Gutiérrez, who had run for president as a populist friend of the poor, lost much of his public support almost as soon as he took office. Ecuadoreans were increasingly dissatisfied with his austere economic policies, which had produced a 6 percent growth rate in 2004 but also hardships for ordinary citizens.
But it was Mr. Gutiérrez's role in twice dismissing the Supreme Court, most recently last Friday, that helped create a firestorm he could not survive. An interim court installed by Mr. Gutiérrez's allies had cleared former President Bucaram of corruption charges, permitting his return to Quito earlier this month.
Protests picked up momentum on April 13, with demonstrators accusing Mr. Gutiérrez of a power grab. In Quito, where the protests began, a small FM radio station, La Luna, marshaled people for daily anti-government rallies. "I feel like we lit a fuse and that there was so much repressed anger that it just kept burning," said Ramiro Pozo, the news director at La Luna.
On Wednesday, anti-government lawmakers voted to end Mr. Gutiérrez's term based on a vague article in the Constitution that permits a president's removal for "abandonment of the post." The congressmen said that by disbanding the Supreme Court and calling for a state of emergency on Friday the president had violated the Constitution.
The president had insisted to reporters that he would not resign, but on Wednesday his political situation became untenable after the military withdrew its support. At a news conference, Gen. Víctor Hugo Rosero, head of the armed forces, said the military could not "remain indifferent before the pronouncements of the Ecuadorean people." Then the head of the national police force, Gen. Jorge Poveda, also resigned, saying, "I cannot continue to be a witness to the confrontation with the Ecuadorean people."
The police chief was referring to protests that turned violent Tuesday night as tens of thousands of protesters clashed with security forces, who used tear gas and high-pressure water hoses to disperse them. International radio reports said that two people had been killed, including a foreign news photographer.
Opposition members of Congress had been trying to oust Mr. Gutiérrez since late last year, accusing him of corruption and nepotism. In November, they failed to muster enough votes to impeach him. Mr. Gutiérrez had bested his opponents with the support of the Roldosista party, led by Mr. Bucaram, who had been in exile avoiding corruption charges since his ouster.
In return for Roldosista support, government opponents said, Mr. Gutiérrez's allies in Congress disbanded the Supreme Court and named a new one that, in March, cleared Mr. Bucaram. Mr. Bucaram was also being sought Wednesday night.
Carla D'Nan Bass in Quito and Mónica Trujillo in Bogotá contributed reporting for this article.
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