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...summers away from Harvard, Hemel has served as a travel researcher for Let’s Go Publications in the Baltics, a beat reporter for the New York Sun, and a vocational English teacher in Ecuador with WorldTeach...
...contest is the last of a grueling 10 presidential races since last December that pitted Washington's globalization agenda against the more statist policies of the new Latin American left. And with leftist economist and Chavez pal Rafael Correa defeating conservative billionaire Alvaro Noboa in this week's Ecuador run-off vote, a Chavez win will give the left a 6-4 edge. But the intensity of the contest will be demonstrated elsewhere on Friday - at the inauguration of Mexico's conservative President-elect, Felipe Calderon. He'll likely face angry and perhaps violent protests by supporters of the leftist...
...said Meskele, who is the founder of Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union. Instead of going through collectors, distributors and exporters, Oromia has allowed farmers to bypass the middle man, thus raising their profits. Sylvia Arevalo, another farmer at the event, described her poverty-stricken community of banana-growers in Ecuador. She belongs to a 350-member farmers’ cooperative, which exported products directly to consumers. “This banana money makes it possible for the producers to continue to be farmers and not disappear,” Arevalo said through a translator. Rich Bonanno, a local New England...
...problem for Correa, Shifter points out, is that by playing "the quintessential anti-establishment candidate," one who will take on not only Ecuador's corrupt ruling class but also the military and other entrenched institutions, "you wonder how he'll be able to govern if he's elected and creates that kind of atmosphere of confrontation...
...After Ecuador's election, Washington stands to finish the year swallowing more leftist victories: polls show Daniel Ortega, the controversial former Sandinista President of Nicaragua, may well win that country's Nov. 5 election; and Chavez himself is expected to punctuate 2006 for the Latin left by winning re-election...