Ecuador Gets Rid of Another President

The destitution of a duly elected President is just another holiday
in the wild, wacky world of Ecuadorian politics. From the Nwe York Times:

BOGOTA, Colombia, April 20 – President Lucio Guti?rrez 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. Guti?rrez,
48, a former army colonel who had faced mounting street protests against
what critics called an illegal overhaul of the Supreme Court.

translations of the headlines in El
Universo, from Guayaqil:

Quito Brought Down Lucio

OAS recesses until tomorrow to take up case of Ecuador

President’s Brother Flees Brazilian Embassy

Iberia Airlines flight diverted to Bogota Due to Caos

Brazil awards asylum to Lucio

Palacio, A Cardiologist to the Presidency

Herre is a link to El Commercio, the Ecuadorian Wall Street Journal
and the top paper in the capital, Quito, but their web site is down this
morning, perhaps from too much traffic….