Word: ecuador
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...head of Ecuador's Supreme Court ordered an investigation into charges that Mahuad's decisions, which he defended as necessary to stop capital from leaving the impoverished nation, were made to benefit bankers and contributors to his 1998 presidential campaign...
...Mahuad, who touted his Harvard degree in public administration during the campaign, remains in Cambridge despite calls for him to return to Ecuador to face charges...
Mahuad, the Heffernan Visiting Fellow, left Ecuador shortly after the coup and has been working at the Kennedy School since April. In the spring he led an IOP study group titled "Conflict, Crisis and Leadership in Latin America." He is working on his own projects in Cambridge over the summer, according to Jennifer Phillips, the coordinator of the visiting fellows program...
...some in Ecuador are incensed that Harvard is employing Mahuad, and alums there say the Harvard name has been sullied by harboring an alleged criminal...
...there anyone interested in not allowing a fugitive of Ecuadoran justice to teach at Harvard?" wrote Humberto X. Mata '90, a member of the liberal reformist movement Fuerza Ecuador, in an e-mail message to The Crimson and University officials...