Thousands of Ecuadoreans joined President Rafael Correa in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Jan. 15 to celebrate 10 years of the Citizens' Revolution that has brought a wave of social and economic gains to the South American country since the left-wing Alianza Pais party came to power in 2007. 

In the past decade under the Correa government, Ecuador has lifted more than 1.5 million people out of poverty, doubled the minimum wage, doubled health spending per person, cut unemployment by over 4 percent and expanded social security to hundreds of thousands of people for the first time, among other social and economic gains.