{"id":189,"date":"2005-04-21T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T16:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/04\/21\/ecuador-gets-rid-of-another-president\/"},"modified":"2005-04-21T12:54:29","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T16:54:29","slug":"ecuador-gets-rid-of-another-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/21\/ecuador-gets-rid-of-another-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador Gets Rid of Another President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4889'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"122\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/heddersm.jpg\" alt=\"ecuakids\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The destitution of a duly elected President is just another holiday<br \/>\n      in the wild, wacky world of Ecuadorian politics. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/04\/21\/international\/americas\/21ecuador.html?\">Nwe York Times:<\/a>      <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>BOGOTA, Colombia, April 20 &#8211; President Lucio Guti?rrez of Ecuador fled<br \/>\n          his presidential palace on Wednesday after the Congress, meeting in special<br \/>\n          session, voted to remove him. The Congress then swore in Vice President<br \/>\n          Alfredo Palacio, a 66-year-old cardiologist, to replace Mr. Guti?rrez,<br \/>\n          48, a former army colonel who had faced mounting street protests against<br \/>\n        what critics called an illegal overhaul of the Supreme Court.      <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>      translations of the headlines in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eluniverso.com\/\">El<br \/>\n      Universo<\/a>, from Guayaqil:      <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Quito Brought Down Lucio<\/p>\n<p>OAS recesses until tomorrow to take up case of Ecuador<\/p>\n<p>President&#8217;s Brother Flees Brazilian Embassy <\/p>\n<p>Iberia Airlines flight diverted to Bogota Due to Caos<\/p>\n<p>Brazil awards asylum to Lucio<\/p>\n<p>Palacio, A Cardiologist to the Presidency<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Herre is a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elcomercio.com\/\">El Commercio<\/a>, the Ecuadorian Wall Street Journal<br \/>\n        and the top paper in the capital, Quito, but their web site is down this<br \/>\n        morning, perhaps from too much traffic&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; President Lucio Guti?rrez of Ecuador fled his presidential palace on Wednesday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/21\/ecuador-gets-rid-of-another-president\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}