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To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (40)9/30/2006 8:45:39 PM
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Candidate for president of Ecuador dislikes U.S.

PUJILI, Ecuador - A U.S.-trained economist has suddenly become the front-runner in Oct. 15 presidential elections by pledging to "give the lash" to his nation's corrupt political class and delivering an anti-U.S. message similar to that of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

On a recent afternoon, Rafael Correa spoke to thousands of Indians in their native Quichua, reminding them that he lived among them 20 years ago as a volunteer teacher and development worker, and brandishing a belt as he spoke out against the politicians who, he said, have long oppressed them.

Correa, 43, pledges to cut foreign-debt payments and renegotiate contracts with foreign oil companies to benefit Ecuador's poor majority. A relative political newcomer, he has risen suddenly in the polls in the past two weeks, alarming Washington and Wall Street - not to mention Ecuador's political establishment.

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