Ecuador Elections 2009

We're meeting with Participación Ciudadan tomorrow to talk about the forthcoming Ecuadorian elections. Its mandatory to vote so they're concentrating on informing people for what they are voting (rather than the buses which pick people up and feed them in exchange), but all in all - i'm not too sure the use of informing people about something they'd rather sit down and change. Representational democracy is representing whom?

Here a rich person creates his own party, maybe gets two terms and is kicked out for corrupton. One guy running in 2009 was the president in 2004 and literally had to flee the country becuase of the angry mob outside the presidential palace. He got bored exhiled in Brazil so came back and no-one seems to mind he's running again..! On the other hand the ineffectual politicians here generally maintain the line (unless they've got oil money on tap like Chavez), a bit like Obama is doing. A linear view of politics as well as economics. Funny how in a world of increasing diversity - we're polerising our responses to things.