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Brazil Gives Lucio Asylum

Submitted April 20, 2005 - 10:53 pm by Dan Feder
The headline at the website for the Brazilian daily O Globo reads: Brasil dá asilo ao presidente do Equador – “Brazil gives asylum to president of Ecuador.” (The articles can't be accessed without a subscription.) This is somewhat surprising – Venezuela had already denied Gutiérrez asylum, and he was expected to try to head to Panama. He is now hiding out in the Brazilian embassy, with Ecuadorian police under orders to arrest him on sight.

The coup scenario described above seems to have been, as hoped, merely rumor. As I listen to Radio La Luna, whoever is speaking now just closed an emotional commentary saying: “Last night, we slept under a dictatorship. This morning, we woke up to a dictatorship. But tonight we can sleep in peace.” The new president, Alfredo Palacio, has already suggested the possibility of holding a new constitutional assembly, in response to popular demands for “creating a new country.”

The Organization of American States will hold a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the crisis in Ecuador.

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