QUITO, September 30, 2010 (AFP) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Thursday that he conspired to try to give Congress a coup, shortly before reporting that a group of soldiers tried to enter the room hospital where he was.
"The problem is that Congress conspires cheating (...) (...) trying to make a coup," Correa said in an interview with Ecuadorian television from the hospital, where he was taken after being assaulted in barracks to which he was to meet the demands of the military.
Soon after, Correa explained, "are trying to entered here, to my room through the roof these policemen in rebellion, "Bush told public radio.
" If something happens, the responsibility is theirs. I just want to say that my love for the motherland is infinite and that where will always love my family, "he added.
Dozens of police took several regiments in the three main cities, Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca, a day after that the government majority to pass a law to regulate public service and take away benefits.
same time, some 150 members of the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) took the track from the international airport in Quito, following which they were suspended air operations.
The government had announced hours before the president was considering to dissolve Congress and call early general elections after lawmakers rejected his partially block the law in question. Correa
police entered the hospital on a stretcher and showing signs of choking tear gas, after leaving the main police regiment Quito, where he went to try to quell the protest.
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