Weekly Report - 15 October 2015 (WR-15-41)

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa met the opposition mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, for the first time in eight years on 8 October during celebrations to mark the 195^th anniversary of the independence of the city which is now the country’s business and commercial hub. During those eight years the two longest-serving and most powerful elected figures in Ecuador have exchanged diatribes through the press over their political differences and seem to have gone out of their way to avoid bumping into each other at public events. Why was Correa prepared to meet now?

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