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Ecuador revolt: Attempted coup or uprising? (AP)

October 1st, 2010

A boy gestures in front of soldiers at the surroundings of the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Ecuador is under a state of siege, with the military in charge of public order, after soldiers rescued Ecuador's President Rafael Correa from a hospital where he'd been surrounded by police who roughed him up and tear-gassed him earlier. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - It was the biggest test to date of Rafael Correa’s nearly 4-year-old presidency, a bloody trial by fire for a tenacious politician whose popular government had brought relative calm to a chronically unstable country.


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