Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Support for Correa's Opponents

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Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Support for Correa's Opponents

Quito, May 4 (Prensa Latina)

Wikileaks revealed that in 2007, the United States supported banker 
Guillermo Lasso, currently the chief executive of the Bank of Guayaquil, to 
implement a structured plan to destabilize the newly-formed government of 
Rafael Correa. According to the documents published in The Telegraph, Lasso 
held a meeting on March 12, 2007, with that purpose, as reported by U.S. 
former Ambassador to Ecuador Linda Jewell in her report on March 20.

The banker, who had served as an advisor to former President Lucio 
Gutierrez, sought support from the president himself, Jaime Nebot and Alvaro 
Noboa, who announced his candidacy for the presidency in 2013 this week, to 
implement his plan.

Lasso called them one by one to ask them to join an effort to counteract 
Correa's policies. He said that the business community's role is to 
challenge Correa's administration on basic principles instead of defending 
private interests.

According to the report that Lasso gave to former Ambassador Jewell, he 
assured that Gutierrez was willing to work with the business community, but 
only on his terms. He added that Noboa did not understand what was happening 
in Ecuador.

Nebot (current mayor of Guayaquil) is the most intelligent of the three, but 
he has chosen to exercise his role by defending Guayaquil's local interests, 
said the cable from the former U.S. ambassador, who quoted her conversation 
with the banker.

Lasso finally rendered account to the Embassy about the advertising campaign 
that he would launch, linking the administration of President Correa to the 
government of Venezuela.

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