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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 27 July 2017

Correa and Moreno open rift in Revolution

“The formula for success I don’t know, but for failure it is trying to please everyone.” With these words former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) left Ecuador for a ‘quiet life’ with his family in Belgium, the native country of his wife Anne Malherbe. Correa’s words were a direct criticism of his successor, President Lenín Moreno, who he accused of undermining his Citizens’ Revolution by crossing various “red lines”. This includes Moreno’s national dialogue process, which he interpreted as cosying up to the political opposition, dismissed pejoratively by Correa throughout his mandate as the partidocracia, as well as the former president’s “number one enemy”, the private media and its “ink assassins”.

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