The Ecuadorian election is happening this week, second round, the final showdown between a rhetorical, nominal socialist from an economics background (the academic discipline where humans are reduced to numbers in equations predicting the behaviour of rational, self-interested individuals) and a bastard banana boss who strikes down upon his family and his plantation wage-slaves with as hard a hand as he holds his bible with when he campaigns to save Ecuador from communism and prepare to sell it to lowest bidder. The former goes by the name of Rafael Correa and the latter by Alvaro Noboa, and all things considered, the lesser evil is clearly the former. Noboa is a political and economical gangster, who alienated his siblings in his dubious manoeuvres to seize control of their father's empire. In the oh-so-objective and scared to be in a position that could be called political online encyclopedia Wikipedia it reads:

“Noboa has opposed campaigns for workers' rights within his own companies, and Noboa Group workers have been illegally dismissed for joining trade unions. In one 2002 incident striking workers at a Noboa subsidiary were attacked and — according to a Human Rights Watch report — several were shot by organized assailants. Noboa Group was also criticised in a Human Rights Watch investigation into child labour practices in the banana industry.”
(from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Noboa)

About the lesser evil, we can read that “Correa defines himself as a humanist, a Christian of the left (he is a Roman Catholic)” and that he “received a Master's degree in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois in 2001.”
(from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Correa)

Don't vote, it just encourages them, but when it comes to being offered a chance to avoid being ruled, sold and repressed by a ruthless capitalist pig like Noboa --who admits in an article in Forbes Magazine (about the way in which he screwed his family to take control of the family empire) that "...there are many strange things in my life ... But what can I say? I always come out well." (from  http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2003/0317/108.html)
-- it is maybe not only sensible but necesary to vote!

So if he comes out well this time, mind you he has set a precedent for losing three time previously, Ecuador will have a president right up there with Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush: another personification of the devil to rule in the name of God. Just like Arundhati Roy noted “So now we know. Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is Peace.” (from  http://www.zmag.org/roywarpeace.htm)

There is more information here:
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1950822,00.html

See also:
 http://www.bananalink.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=26

and of course:
 http://ecuador.indymedia.org/ -  http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2006/10/16635.shtml