September 29, 2007 (LPAC)--Approximately 1,000 enthusiatic, mostly poor people turned out for Ecuador's President Rafael Correa's meeting with migrants in Brooklyn, New York on Sept. 23. The feisty 44 year-old President spoke to his people about his government's effort to rebuild a country so destroyed by the IMF and World Bank that citizens had been forced to leave to survive. He spoke to them of how much they could learn from what Nestor Kirchner had done in Argentina; of plans, just discussed with President Lula in Brazil, to create a great bioceanic corridor by connecting the Amazon river to a revitalized railroad in Ecuador, ending in the port of Manta; of how the economy must be based on the people and social well-being. The spirit of his message was captured in his declaration: "We don't aspire for Ecuador to become the Switzerland of the Andeans. We aspire that, one day, Switzerland will want to be the Ecuador of the Alps. We can do everything that we propose to do."

Two LaRouche organizers were present, distributing 250 copies of the Homeowners and Banks Protection Act flyer in Spanish, and carrying a special package prepared for Correa including a number of LaRouche’s books in Spanish.

The next day, when her car pulled up in front of a Columbia University LaRouchePAC deployment, Chilean President Michele Bachelet was handed a copy of LaRouche's End of the FDR Era and the HBPA, and told "Welcome to the United States from Mr. LaRouche," and everyone with her received literature, too.