August 6, 2007 (LPAC)--During his weekly radio address to the nation, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa made a strong appeal for the economic policies that serve the common interests of the people of the nation. In going against the economic policies of the speculators and privatizers, Correa even warned that these interests will attempt to overthrow his government before the September 30, 2007 elections that will elect members of a Constituent Assembly, to draft a new constitution.

In addition, faced with the barbarous month-long imprisonment of an Ecuadorian woman and her 11 year old daughter in Belgium, solely for the "crime" of being in the country illegally--an imprisonment which only ended when the Ecuadorian government raised a hue and cry--Correa delivered a lesson in humanity to all those who would treat undocumented migrants as animals:

"If one day, you, Belgian friends, find yourselves forced to leave your own country, you can be certain that here, in Ecuador, you will be received as brothers, because we believe that there are no illegal human beings, and our arms will always be open," President Correa declared in his weekly national radio address on August 4.

Two million Ecuadorians have left the country in desperate search for work since the 1999 general banking collapse destroyed the country's currency, and forced Ecuador to adopt the dollar as its medium of exchange. At that time, U.S. statesman Lyndon LaRouche warned that the dollarization being imposed on the country would lead to genocide and slavery. Eight years later, a full 10% of Ecuador's productive labor force lives outside the country.

In his radio address, President Correa urged his fellow-countrymen to turn their horror at the Belgium atrocity to join him in "building a new country where no one else will have to leave, and those that left at one time can return, to avoid these humiliations of our compatriots abroad."