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The market isn’t free if the elites hijack it
• http://www.bostonglobe.com, By Farah StockmanUnderstand that history, and you will understand why the poor people rose up and toppled three presidents in Ecuador. You will also understand the meteoric rise of Rafael Correa, who has built a career on criticizing the IMF and the United States.
“Correa comes from that virulent reaction of people not just sensing that they were getting screwed over, but seeing it,” said J. D. Bowen, an assistant professor of political science at Saint Louis University.