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### Viewing cable 10QUITO25, Celebration of Correa's Three Years in Power

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10QUITO25 | 2010-01-20 21:05 | 2011-04-20 19:00 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Quito
Appears in these articles: http://www.eluniverso.com/2011/04/20/1/1355/cable-244517.html

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L QUITO 000025

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/01/20
    TAGS: PGOV ECON MARR SENV PHUM PREL EC
    SUBJECT: Celebration of Correa's Three Years in Power

    CLASSIFIED BY: Andrew Chritton, Charge d'Affaires; REASON: 1.4(D) ...

    id: 244517
    date: 1/20/2010 21:05
    refid: 10QUITO25
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    C O N F I D E N T I A L QUITO 000025

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/01/20
    TAGS: PGOV ECON MARR SENV PHUM PREL EC
    SUBJECT: Celebration of Correa's Three Years in Power

    CLASSIFIED BY: Andrew Chritton, Charge d'Affaires; REASON: 1.4(D)

    ¶1. (C) Summary: President Correa's PAIS movement celebrated on
    January 16 the third anniversary of the government of the
    "Citizens' Revolution."  The festive event gathered over 80,000
    people who cheered President Correa (although some attendees were
    reportedly coerced).  While listing his government's specific
    achievements, Correa sought to demonize the usual suspects, such as
    the private media, the traditional political parties, and the
    oligarchy.  He also played the nationalism card.  The event showed
    the government's ability to mobilize large numbers of people, and
    made the turnout at protests by teachers, students, labor, and
    indigenous over the last few months look insignificant.  End
    Summary.

    CELEBRATING BIG

    ---------------

    ¶2. (SBU) About 80,000 people attended the Proud and Sovereign
    Fatherland (PAIS) celebrations on January 16 to commemorate the
    Correa government's third anniversary.  The event took place on the
    streets of Ambato city, capital of Tungurahua province in central
    Ecuador.  The government set out 60 stands and nine stages where
    government officials explained their work and musicians performed
    to entertain the crowd during the daylong event.  Flags, signs, and
    light green clothing (the PAIS color) peppered the mass of
    Ecuadorians congregated to support their government.  Correa's
    cabinet and many other government officials were in attendance.

    ¶3. (C) The opposition raised questions as to how the government
    paid for the celebrations, including transporting PAIS supporters
    from throughout the country to Ambato and feeding them.  While the
    organizers did not reveal the total cost of the event, they denied
    that public funds were employed and emphasized that PAIS government
    officials donated 10 percent of their salaries to the movement,
    claiming that those funds paid for the event.  There were reports
    that some recipients of government assistance were forced to
    attend, including an embassy official's employee, who had received
    a subsidy to help purchase a home.

    CORREA'S SPEECH: ATTACKING THE USUAL SUSPECTS

    ---------------------------------------------

    ¶4. (SBU) Correa recalled that the citizens' revolution began after
    international pressure resulted in his resignation as Finance
    Minister in 2005, when with limited resources he and three or four
    friends started travelling the country advocating for political
    change.  The motto of the speech was "Do not forget!," an attempt
    to point out to Ecuadorians that they were better off now than
    before his government.  Correa described the past as a time when
    the "partidocracia" (ruling political parties) and "the oligarchy
    that speaks in Spanish but thinks in English" ruled.  He made
    several direct and indirect pejorative remarks about the Gutierrez
    administration (2000-05) throughout his speech.

    ¶5. (SBU) Correa advocated for the restrictive Communications Law
    now under consideration in the National Assembly, mocked the
    private media campaign in favor of freedom of expression, and
    attacked the media: "We don't fear you."  He called the media the
    "voice of a few with money."  Correa stated proudly that his
    government had made bankers responsible for the 1999 banking
    crisis, introduced responsible management of natural resources,
    eliminated exploitative labor practices, and increased salaries.
    The President recalled an achievement from his days as finance
    minister under the Palacios administration, when he annulled a
    regulation by which public spending could not increase by more than
    3 percent per year.

    ¶6. (SBU) In Correa's view, Ecuador's economic policy is now
    centered on the welfare of the Ecuadorian people by promoting and
    protecting national production and employment, in contrast with the
    past when it sought the applause of Wall Street and cocktail
    parties in Washington.  "Today, this country's economic policy is
    decided exclusively by Ecuadorians, the owners of this country,
    without interferences from any class, be it foreign powers,
    transnational companies, international bureaucracies and
    foundations, NGOS, or all those people who want to do in our
    countries what they could not do in their own," he concluded.

    EXTOLLING THREE YEARS OF GOVERNMENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    --------------------------------------------- ------

    ¶7. (SBU) The second half of Correa's speech lauded the government's
    concrete achievements over the past three years in different areas.
    He praised the 2008 constitution and defended it against opposition
    charges that it would allow gay marriage or abortion.  Turning to
    public works, Correa said that his government increased investment
    on roads from $300 million per year to $1.3 billion during the
    government of the citizens' revolution. His description involved
    more promises than a list of finished projects: "the best is yet to
    come...the roads, the airports, the bridges...the hydroelectrical
    plants, the refineries, will be there."

    ¶8. (SBU) In regard to education, Correa stated that his government
    had eliminated the $25 fee paid in public schools, hired 12,000
    teachers, improved teachers' salaries, built schools, provided
    technology to schools, and distributed uniforms and food among the
    poorest students.  He lamented that teachers' union leaders opposed
    the government's decision to evaluate the performance of teachers,
    but stated that his government won that fight.  In the area of
    health, he supported the work of Health Minister Carolina Chang,
    whom he thought was being politically persecuted through
    embezzlement charges (for allegedly not following proper procedures
    in procuring ambulances).  He said that public hospitals were for
    the first time equipped with sophisticated equipment such as CT
    scanners, fees for medical consultations were eliminated, and new
    hospitals were being built or remodeled.

    ¶9. (SBU) Correa praised the work of Vice President Lenin Moreno
    with vulnerable groups, including the census of the disabled.  In
    the area of housing, he said that his government built 180,000
    houses in three years and increased the housing subsidy from $500
    to $5,000.  In agriculture, he said that previous administrations
    wanted Ecuador to enter an free trade agreement, which would have
    ruined local production.  Correa noted that the Banco de Fomento's
    work had improved and that his administration introduced the urea
    fertilizer subsidy for farmers.  He highlighted that his government
    invested in improving and increasing the equipment of the public
    security forces and raised the salaries of police and military
    personnel.

    ¶10. (SBU) Correa argued that the Yasuni-ITT initiative (under which
    petroleum would not be extracted from the Yasuni National Park in
    return for international support) belonged to his government and
    denied that his government had lost the green elements in it, a
    reference to the resignation of Foreign Minister Fander Falconi and
    the estrangement of former Constituent Assembly President Alberto
    Acosta.  He vowed to support the Yasuni-ITT project without
    compromising national sovereignty.  In comparing his foreign policy
    with that of former president Lucio Gutierrez, he said that his was
    sovereign while Gutierrez "shamefully accepted foreign bases" on
    Ecuadorian soil, a reference to the now-closed U.S. Forward
    Operating Location in Manta.  Finally, he argued that because the
    opposition was unable to win elections, and because "21st century
    invasions" (apparently meaning Honduras-like government overthrows
    inspired by outsiders) would be overly shameless, the opposition
    conspired to destabilize his government by creating the perception

    of chaos and by generating scandals involving government officials.
    CHRITTON

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