Wednesday, July 09, 2008

More indecipherable news from Ecuador

The government of Ecuador seized two television channels and 200 other businesses yesterday, in what they called an effort to recover debts owed by failed Ecuadorian banks that are somehow related to the television stations. You can read more about it here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7497030.stm

As seems so often to be the case, this bit of Ecuadorian politicking is clear as mud.

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