6 Ecuador Police convicted for their coup attempt last September http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_63337.shtml

In the report below, the BBC once again attempts to obfuscate by reporting, "He (Correa) described the events as an attempted coup," claiming that it was a protest about the government cutting their bonuses. Well, as in Honduras, what happened was nothing short of an attempted coup regardless of the BBC's lame spin.Many of you will remember that in the attempted coup on September 30, 2010, elements within Ecuadoran police seized the Quito International Airport and later attacked President Correa with tear gas, held him hostage and many feared they would assassinate him.

The Ecuadorian police had been infiltrated by U.S. intelligence services as early as 2008 according to former CIA Agent, Philip Agee. On October 10, 2010, Jean Guy Allard wrote that the report revealed that the Ecuadoran Police “maintain informal economic dependence on the United States,

to pay for informants, training, equipment and operations.” Allard continued, "The systematic use of corruption techniques by the CIA in order to acquire the 'goodwill' of police officers was described and denounced on many occasions by the ex-CIA agent Philip Agee who, before leaving the agency’s ranks, was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Quito." The wheels of justice have turned democratically in Ecuador and 9 months later, six of those police officers have been convicted by Ecuadoran courts and await sentencing.