Crowds in Banos, a town in central Ecuador, demonstrated Friday for a new constitutional assembly during a visit by President Rafael Correa
The past few weeks have been unkind to Ecuador’s Congress. A court fired 57 of the legislators. Mobs beat some of the expelled lawmakers in the street. When Congress finally convened this week, someone lobbed a tear gas canister near its chamber, forcing lawmakers to flee.
The future looks dimmer still for Congress, one of the most reviled institutions in chronically unstable Ecuador. If President Rafael Correa gets his way in a referendum on Sunday, his supporters will soon start rewriting the constitution to weaken congressional power and enhance state control of the economy.
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