Will the interim government of Fabian Alarcon, appointed president by Congress in February to replace the deposed Abdala Bucaram, do better?

ECONOMIST: Galapagos

Against this block, probably, will be ranged the Democratic Left party and the party of former president Abdala Bucaram, deposed in February.

ECONOMIST: Ecuador

The man he has appointed as his finance minister, Pablo Concha, backed a currency board when he held the job in 1996-97 under Abdala Bucaram, a disgraced former president and a Roldosist.

ECONOMIST: Ecuador��s post-coup reckoning