Rafael Correa vs Lucas Papademos

[Platypus]

Tough one. For Australia, I'd definitely prefer Papademos, for Greece, probably Papademos. But for Ecuador, Correa was a necessary leader, and still remains important I reckon. He's lifted the poorest up significantly. Ecuador still faces troubles, and that whole debt cancellation thing was highly questionable, but I reckon he's a good leader for Ecuador at the moment. Not a Lula, but not a Chavez, either.

[Platypus]

Papademos (sane).

If so, sanity is a grotesquely overrated construct. (Remember, folks, Papademos is the man who helped bring Greece into the Euro in the first place)

Sure, but Correa has been... 'mostly-kinda-semi-democratic' in the best Latin American tradition.