Ecuador - Bomb explodes in Quito hotel, American Airlines office damaged, one person injured

AFP via Babelfish translation | January 27, 2003

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Explosion With Quito: a casualty, an office of American Airlines damaged

An explosion which has occurred Tuesday evening in a large hotel of Quito made a casualty and severely damaged offices of the airline company American Airlines, according to the police force and Cross's-Rouge.Un man was wounded by glares of glass during the explosion which touched the buildings of American Airlines, with rez of roadway of a Hilton hotel, in the north of the capital, according to a spokesman of the Cross-Rouge.Les windows of the offices of the company were puffed up by the explosion which occurred towards 17H30 Tuesday (00H30 GMT Wednesday), according to a person in charge for the police.L' explosion also damaged a bus which circulated close to the hôtel.Des leaflets of Populate (MRP) were found scattered in the neighbourhoods of the hotel, announcing "a response armed to unpopular measurements and impérialistes".Ce movement had already threatened to use the force against each unpopular measurement imposed by gouvernement.La MRP is opposed to recent measures adopted by the new president équatorien Lucio Gutierrez, former colonel and initiator of a coup d'etat which took its functions on January 15 for a mandate of four ans.M. Gutierrez launched four days after its establishment a "plan of saving in war" which includes/understands a rise of 39% of the price of the fuels and similar increases in the prices of transport publics.Le movement also criticizes the project of the government to negotiate a loan "stand by" of 200 million dollars near the International Monetary International Monetary Funds to be able to honour the payment with its public foreign debt, of 11,3 billion dollars, that is to say more half of the budget of Etat.Accusant Mr. Gutierrez to have already fallen into the nepotism, the movement calls with a "civil disobedience" rejecting "hostile the interventionist attitude" of States-Unis.

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YAHOO! News (Reuters): "EXPLOSION ROCKS AMERICAN AIRLINE'S OFFICE IN ECUADOR" (January 28, 2003)
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YAHOO! News (AP): "TWO BOMBS FROM LITTLE KNOWN REBEL GROUP EXPLODE NEAR ECUADOR HOTEL" (ARTICLE SNIPPETS: "QUITO, Ecuador - Two bombs exploded near a five-star hotel Tuesday night, blowing out windows at the hotel and at an American Airlines office in its lobby. One person was injured, police said.


The bombs exploded at about 7:20 p.m. (0020 GMT) in a park 20 meters (65 feet) in front of the Hilton Colon, police said."

"A little-known group, the Revolutionary Militias of the People, claimed responsibility for the bombs and left fliers at the site rejecting recent austerity measures announced by President Lucio Gutierrez, police said.

The leaflets read: "Armed response to the anti-populist and imperialistic measures," police said, and referred to Gutierrez's plans to raise gasoline and electricity prices to help reduce Ecuador's staggering US$2 billion fiscal deficit."...

"In August, two same-day explosions injured three people, with fliers pledging an armed revolution to confront widespread corruption and poverty. The group claimed that its members had been trained by Colombian guerrillas."




(January 28, 2003)
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