Open Files An exhaustive investigative report on the lives and works of Latin America’s and the world’s most controversial personalities. Today's edition, "A Chameleon in the Presidency" looks at the legacy of former Ecuadoran president Lucio Gutierrez. Although Gutierrez came to power in a military coup in January 2000 that toppled unpopular, corrupt, neoliberal president Jamil Mahuad, had ties to the indigenous communities and radical and left-wing sectors, and claimed to have a progressive agenda in favor of the poor, once in office the reality of his government would expose his true face. On April 20, 2005, repudiated by the Ecuadoran people and following mass demonstrations of hundreds of thousands, some brutally repressed, Gutierrez fled the country. teleSUR
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