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 Correa warned that countries in the region neglected autonomy of Santa Cruz |
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, warned on Saturday that several countries in the region neglected a probable autonomy of the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz, and complained that \ "separatist attempt \" is being supported by Ecuadorian and Venezuelan elites. "These are absolutely illegal separatist attempts. The countries of the region-I have spoken with several presidents-we will not allow this kind of action \" said the agent without mentioning any government in particular. Correa expressed his solidarity with the Bolivian President Evo Morales held a day before a referendum called by Santa Cruz autonomous, and alerted the governments of the region on an action orchestrated to destabilize through such consultations. "What is happening in Bolivia is not an isolated action, has the support of foreign countries, who want to destabilize the region and the separatist elites of Guayaquil and Zulia in Venezuela \," said Ecuadorian president in his weekly radio. In Bolivia, President Morales called the autonomic call the referendum in Santa Cruz as \ "illegal and secessionist \". According to Correa, right-wing groups operating against leftist governments in the region \ "confederation formed a separatist autonomic \" to \ "create certain States \", where they can continue with \ "neo-liberalism and imperialist policies \". "This is not just a problem of Bolivia, and we are not going to allow: Nobody is going to recognize this referendum illegal. It is a strategy to destabilize progressive governments in the region \", he reiterated. On Thursday the Constituent Ecuadorian under the control of officialdom, adopted a resolution rejecting the referendum in Santa Cruz to consider it a threat to America since americas unknown to the government of Morales. |
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