In-depth reports and analysis from our extensive network of correspondents throughout the region on the most important developments in Latin America. This report gives a glimpse of the rise to power of former Colonel Lucio Gutierrez, as a leftist associated with the indigenous movement, and a summary of the factors that provoked mass outrage leading to his overthrow. Following the deals he made with the IMF and the Bush administration in Washington, his dissolution of the Supreme Court and his support for the return from exile of the hated politician Abdala Bucaram, thousands of people rose up and demanded that Gutierrez step down. When crowds tried to keep him from escaping in an airplane, he dubbed the protesters “forajidos” or outlaws. The movement that ousted him rejected the country’s entire political class, demanded radical political reform, and gave way to greater civic engagement and new political actors, including Ecuador’s current President Rafael Correa and the Citizens’ Revolution that is shaping the country. teleSUR