Correa wins Ecuador's presidential vote: official

QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa has won Sunday's presidential run-off election after winning 57 percent of votes with almost all ballot boxes counted, a top electoral court official said on Tuesday.

"Rafael Correa is the new president of Ecuador. The trend is not going to change," Narciza Subia, one of seven Supreme Electoral Tribunal judges, told Reuters.

With 95.35 percent of ballot boxes nationwide tallied, Correa had 57.2 percent of the vote while his conservative rival, banana magnate Alvaro Noboa, had 42.8 percent, according to election authority tallies.

Noboa, Ecuador's wealthiest man who has run twice before for the presidency, has refused to accept defeat and says he could challenge the election with a review of the ballots.

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Usual suspects wasting no time in attacking and undermining

Ecuador's President-elect Correa.

November 28, 2006 -- Ecuador's newly-elected President Rafael Correra is already facing U.S. and international banking syndicate Psyops designed to weaken his administration. Correa, an avowed opponent of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and other global financial elite contrivances, is already being blamed by such "news" organizations as Bloomberg for driving down Ecuador's bond prices.

Other dubious global media outlets tied to the financial elites, particularly the Washington Post and the Associated Press, are claiming that Correa will not be able to govern Ecuador since the Ecuadorian Congress is in the hands of his political opposition.
Usual suspects wasting no time in attacking and undermining Ecuador's President-elect Correa.

And in the most obvious Psyops strategy, Correa is being linked by various neo-con "think tank" and private intelligence operations in the United States to the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), the guerrilla group that has been battling the Colombian oligarchy for decades. The U.S. right has attempted to link both Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morlaes of Bolivia to the FARC.

Correa's threat to close the U.S. "drug interdiction" airbase at Manta, Ecuador has also resulted in the U.S. right accusing him of links to drug dealers. In fact, Manta is a US Special Operations "forward operating location" used to provide military assistance to oligarchies in Colombia and Peru to fight populist insurgents and right-wing paramilitaries in Bolivia and Venezuela to topple progressive governments.

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