nation's oil minister the minister also said he was considering declaring force majeure or claiming unpreventable circumstances invoking a contract clause against penalties for late deliveries protesters reportedly have seized at least 3 or oil fields and joining us now for some expert in country perspective is economist and former ecuadorian central bank official andres our rouse mr rouse welcome to the show and 1st let's get oriented to the players in issues here president moreno was elected on pledges of continuity with former president rafael correa a citizen revolution but governed quite differently most obviously with his i.m.f. loan agreement you have noted that we had some clues to this turnaround when mr moreno considered billionaire isabel now boa to be. his running mate who is lenin and how did someone elect is a leftist and the going to the i.m.f. which was previously kicked out of south america. well thanks for having me yeah in effect well my endo in his youth was an activist a militant of what's called the revolutionary left movement in his youth then as he became a one man he beca

it's unfortunate, it's sometimes unpreventible, but it does happen. here's the situation as i read it. it occurred. whether or not -- we have a property owner who is not educated or sophisticated -- this is not an insult, by the way -- me, too, by the way. here's a property owner, and they own their house. they're happy to own it. they don't know about what happens during construction on san francisco's sandy land. and suddenly, they wake up one day, and i wake up one day, and i look over there, and i say whoops, you know, my ceiling fixture is separating from my ceiling. and i go gee, what's happening here, and then, i find out, etc., etc., etc. now, clearly, the -- clearly, it seems, that the fault is with the next door property developer who, i'm not going to call them negligent, but i will certainly find them responsible, that caused the undermining. what is a property owner to do? please identify what -- for the appellant, regardless of what we find tonight, please tell the appellant, based on a clear -- a problem which has clearly affected them