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...that Noboa offers a break from politics as usual. A career academic who never aligned with a political party, Noboa was appointed by Mahuad to join the presidential ticket without having to campaign. "The nation appears to be more stable for now," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk, reporting from Quito. McGirk, who interviewed Noboa Tuesday morning, reports that Ecuador's indigenous leaders agreed to suspend protests for a few months to allow reforms to take root. "Considering that the recent presidents have either been grandstanders or have shut themselves off from the public, Noboa seems...
...probably be some time before any IMF assistance - requested in the disastrous aftermath of El Niño two years ago - comes along. "The impression among international leaders is that they have all bent over backwards to help Ecuador, and Ecuador hasn't done anything to help itself," says McGirk. "The new president will have such a hard time raising money to alleviate the social unrest that it seems as though he'll be constantly looking at his watch." Indeed, while Noboa will have a period of goodwill to restore fiscal order, the Ecuadorian people have shown the limits...
...already started moving homeless people from shelters around the capital out to seven military camps, where they're being put up in barracks and told to make new lives," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "But despite the incentives he'll offer in terms of jobs and housing, many people won't want to be moved away from the city." Though government reconstruction efforts will be helped by the fact that prices are rising for the country's premier cash cow, its oil industry (which is largely unaffected by the flooding), persuading citizens to move away from urban...
...passage by Hutchison" and Buchanan's charge last week that the transfer compromises national security may be somewhat exaggerated. "Hutchison is one of the world's finest port management companies and few observers believe it's an arm of the Chinese military," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "Besides, under the treaty with Panama, U.S. Navy ships keep their privilege of cutting to the front of the line of vessels waiting to pass through the canal...
...right-controlled parliament. The protests of opposition legislators won?t resonate with the electorate, who are still overwhelmingly behind the 45-year-old former paratrooper and failed coup leader. "Most Venezuelans support Chavez because the country?s traditional parties were so corrupt," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. But enthused though they may be by Chavez's promise to share the country?s oil wealth with the impoverished majority, they may be disappointed in him in the long run. "Chavez may be able to use oil revenues to provide health, education and social services to the poor...