Ecuador's former president returned home Saturday after spending eight years in exile in Panama, telling thousands that he plans to lead a "revolution of the poor" modeled after President Hugo Chavez' Venezuela.Abdala Bucaram's return came two days after he was cleared of criminal action by Ecuador's high court. The ruling by Supreme Court President Guillermo Castro was criticized by political rivals as a rigged decision to annul corruption charges against the populist former president. "I come to Ecuador to copy Chavez's style with a great Bolivarian revolution," Bucaram said, referring to the leftist Venezuelan president's movement, which is loosely based on the writings of South American independence hero Simon Bolivar.
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