QUITO, May 24.— Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa highlighted his government’s social and economic progress before the National Assembly during the inaugural ceremony for his second term in office.
Correa, who was reelected in February with 57.7% of the vote, stated in his address of close to two hours that, still pending in Ecuador, “is a second independence against poverty, inequality, and exclusion; we are fighting and advancing toward this second and definitive independence, and the country is profoundly and positively changing in the economic, political and social contexts,” the Xinhua news agency reports.
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