On January 15, 2007, Rafael Correa (who got a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was sworn in as the 56th president of Ecuador, and the seventh since the legislature removed President Abdalá Bucaram ten years ago in February 1997 in the midst of a debt crisis that devastated the country. 
That's Correa on the right with Venezuelan President and fellow leftist Hugo Chavez in the photo at left. See the map on the right, put out by the BBC, to get a picture of the leftward swing that has engulfed Latin America.In his inaugural address, Correa stated his belief that much of Ecuador's $11 billion external debt is illegitimate, because it was contracted by military regimes.[21] Correa's administration has suggested that the new government will not sign an agreement allowing the International Monetary Fund to monitor its economic plan.
On April 15th, Ecuadoreans voted overwhelmingly (78 % in favor) to support the election of a constitutional assembly that will bolster the President's powers and curb the influence of traditional political parties. Congressional representatives of the traditional parties are resisting this effort.
In February, Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president.
A Stanford study concluded that pollution from ethanol could be a worse health hazard than that from gasoline.
On April 16th, at Virginia Tech University, 23-year old senior English major Cho Seung-Hui opened fire in a dormitory and in classrooms, killing 32 people and then himself.
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So what's up with Paraguay? Military dictatorship? And the northeastern guineas or whatever they are? Clorless?
I wondered the same thing. Now if only that left leaning sentiment could continue its march up the landmass...
Nothing will ever help any country that has more people than there are chickens. Also, politics means nothing as long as we revere symbols of wealth and worship power.
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