The region’s leaders and the United States have expressed firm support for Correa. The officers also roughed him up and pelted him with water. Five soldiers were wounded - two critically - in the firefight at the hospital before Correa was removed at top speed in an SUV, according to the military and Red Cross.Ĭorrea was trapped for more than 12 hours in the hospital, where he was being treated for the tear-gassing that nearly asphyxiated him when he tried to reason with angry police officers at a capital barracks. Ecuador was under a state of siege Friday, with the military in charge of public order after rescuing President Rafael Correa from a hospital where he had been surrounded, roughed up and tear gassed by rebellious police.Ĭorrea and his ministers called Thursday’s revolt - in which insurgents also paralyzed the nation with airport shutdowns and highway blockades - an attempt to overthrow him and not just a simple insurrection over a new law that cuts benefits for public servants.Īt least three people - two police officers and a soldier - were killed and dozens injured in the clashes, said Irina Cabezas.
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