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"In the nearly four years since Mr. Correa became president, he has upended the political order in this Andean nation and managed to confound both his supporters and critics. He is in some ways a walking contradiction: a child of poverty who breached the gates of Ecuador’s entrenched elite, an economist from a bastion of conservatism who preaches “21st-century socialism,” and an ally of the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez who remains friendly enough with Washington to have chatted with President Obama this month by telephone."
AND: (Re the police protest and violence) “I’m shattered by all that has happened,” he said. “Imagine, five deaths and hundreds of wounded. I come from academia and found the brutality of these people very dangerous.”
