President Guillermo Lasso warned late Sunday that the government would not allow roads or Ecuador's oil installations to be taken over by protesters.īut Iza insisted the demonstrations would continue for as long as was necessary. Oil-producer Ecuador has been hit by rising inflation, unemployment and poverty, strains exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. The group is also credited with helping topple three presidents between 19. In 2019, Conaie-led protests resulted in 11 deaths and forced then-president Lenin Moreno to abandon plans to eliminate fuel subsidies. Iza, who heads Conaie, is in custody awaiting a hearing, the police added.Ĭonaie confirmed Iza's arrest, condemning it as 'arbitrary and illegal' and calling for a 'radicalization' of the demonstrations in response. Pastocalle has been a flash point of protests called by the powerful Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) against rising fuel prices and living costs, which saw protesters block roads across the country on Monday. Truly, the BBC is a remarkable organisation.The police force tweeted that Iza had been arrested in Pastocalle, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Quito, on suspicion of unspecified 'offenses.' All that said, it is impossible to imagine any other media company ever washing such dirty linen in public.

Though much of the initial attention has been paid to the fact that much of Pollard's interview with Newsnight's presenter, Jeremy Paxman, was redacted, it is interesting to note that he thought Jones to be 'reliable'.ĭoubtless some BBC hands would rather than had been redacted too. Pollard referred to an email she later sent about this clash between the two, saying: 'It paints a pretty terrible picture of what was going on in your empire, shall we say?'īoaden admitted: 'It does.' And then she referred to her email, which said: 'It seems to me this basically comes down to two boys fighting for control of a complex and complicated story.' She cast the failure of Newsnight to screen the Savile investigation in terms of differences of opinion between the programme's editor, Peter Rippon, and the producer of the story, Meirion Jones. Most notably, Helen Boaden, the soon to be ex-BBC News director, was scathing about the Newsnight team, regarding them as forming 'an old colonial power'. I mean, in this case, you have a director general, a head of news … somebody responsible for current affairs and an experienced editor … things still get horribly screwed up.'Įchoing Patten, senior BBC staff also appear to have gone in for some buck-passing. He then spread his criticism still further across the corporation's staff by saying of the BBC's investigative journalists that they had 'qualities which mean that their strike rate of accuracy is not as great as one might like'.Īsked by Pollard if the absence of a deputy director general had hampered the BBC's handling of the Savile crisis, Patten replied: 'I don't think that the BBC needs more senior people in order to avoid making basic mistakes. He also lashed into the BBC's corporate PR team, calling it 'chaotic'. Though he was 'saying all the right things' about reforming management in the first 11 days of his 54-day reign, Patten said things began to unravel once the Savile scandal erupted. In talking of the weak executive team around his choice of director general, Patten said sarcastically that George Entwistle 'talked a good game' about reducing the number of senior managers. And so, looking at the transcript of his own interview during the Pollard review, it has come to pass.įor, in the transcripts, Patten emerges as someone prepared to dump all over senior BBC managers, including the two former director generals, Mark Thompson and George Entwistle, the man he had described just four months previously as having 'the ability to give leadership to a great creative organisation'.

He was surely aware that the required disclosures would leave him red-faced, too. It is true that he had previously made the same promise to MPs, but it is fair now – in the light of what emerged from the Pollard inquiry transcripts on Friday – to wonder if he was hoping to avoid the embarrassment of further revelations about the BBC's botched handling of the Savile affair. Patten betrayed unusual tetchiness when replying, this time unequivocally, to say it would be done.

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