Ecuador's Leftist Candidate Slams Bush

The American people have been the first to speak their minds in an overwhelming fashion on the errors committed by the Bush administration, above all in Iraq,'' he said. ``I think all citizens of the world have a right to express ourselves about that mistake, which put world peace in danger.''
Correa, 43, has promised radical political reforms if elected and is an admirer of Venezuela's firebrand President Hugo Chavez. He faces pro-U.S. populist Alvaro Noboa, 56, Ecuador's wealthiest man, in Sunday's runoff.

Later, at his closing campaign rally in northern Quito, Correa again accused his opponent of using child labor on his banana plantations and evading taxes on some of the 114 companies he operates.

``At stake here is whether to have a nation or be just one more plantation for the conceited Noboa,'' he told thousands of cheering supporters.

Noboa, owner of the world's fourth-biggest banana company, has crisscrossed Ecuador handing out computers, wheelchairs and money, and pledging to boost the economy by persuading his rich foreign friends to invest in Ecuador.

If they don't invest they could always send in death squads and military covert operators. Do you know where your linguistically enabled marine special operators are?