Mr Rodriguez also said he would work with congress, indigenous groups calling for the nationalisation of the energy sector and regional provinces demanding autonomy, to reunify South America's poorest country.
Following industrial action this week at foreign-invested plants in Jiangxi and Xian, labourers at Honda Lock in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, demanded a pay rise and improved collective bargaining rights.
China, which regards Taiwan as a renegade province, demanded that Taiwan — officially known as the Republic of China — change its name in order to take part in the Games.
On Thursday, young Shiite men had attempted to mount a small protest in the country's oil-rich eastern province, demanding the release of a prominent Shiite cleric, Sheikh Tawfic al-Amer, who has called for greater rights for the county's minority Shiites.
Days before the 14 July 2006 eruption, the governor of Tungurahua province demanded in a written statement that the IGEPN desist from reporting about the volcano´s condition, claiming that it was chasing tourism away from Baños.
Several rebel groups severed the electricity for the province, demanding that the government cease its bombardment on opposition areas with barrel bombs.
In areas of the province where demand is sufficient, education is available in French as part of the publicly funded school system.
He was sickened by the massacres condoned by the représentants en mission (members of the National Convention sent to break the opposition in the provinces) and demanded their recall for "dishonouring the Revolution".
Nearly 2,000 Mongolian students on Wednesday marched on a government building in the city of Xilinhot in Inner Mongolia Province to demand that Chinese officials respect the rights of Mongolian herders, according to the Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Center.
If there were any doubts about who controls Indonesia's rebellious provinces, where demands for independence have strengthened in recent months, President Abdurrahman Wahid laid them to rest this weekend when he ordered a severe crackdown on separatists in Irian Jaya that left at least 10 people dead.
