Ecuador's Correa says text-message threat forced abrupt lunch cancellation
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says a telephoned death threat forced the abrupt cancellation of a presidential lunch with citizens in a town near Quito.
Correa read aloud a threat at a news conference that he said the town's mayor received via text message on his cellphone.
He said the message threatened multiple deaths along with his own at Tuesday's lunch.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}News media showed images of police and soldiers with dogs clearing people from the central square of Tabacundo after they had begun dining.