ecuador is under the thumb of chavez. Their president is a fraud.
I don’t think this is going to go very far. The little weasel Correa is in increasing trouble in his own country as resistence grows to his corrupt and dictatorial left-wing government.
As for the EU, Assange was spying on these countries, too, so I don’t think they’re very fond of him.
“ecuador is under the thumb of chavez. Their president is a fraud.”
And ours isn’t? Peas in a pod, Obama and Chavez and the president of Ecuador. And he is right, the UK and Sweden are doing this at the behest of the US. I’m actually shocked at how far the UK seems willing to go, if they really do storm the Ecuadorian embassy to get Assange it basically means that no embassy will be safe in the future, especially US and UK embassies. Just remember back to the Iranian embassy take over during the Carter years and imagine that in a dozen places. Not good.
That’s what we get for neglecting the Monroe Doctrine and allowing Red China to influence the politics down there.
A very good point. Ecuador is just another of Hugo Chavez’ puppet states. Others include Nicaragua, Bolivia and Argentina. What Chavez is doing is trying to make up for South America’s lack of importance in world affairs, a kind of “look at me! look at me!” schtick, which is why he’s getting cozy with Mahmoud Dinner-jacket. We should take comfort in the fact that without Hugo, the rest of these morons are like headless turkeys. Just look at how their “Support us on the Falklands and invite Cuba next time” platform at the latest summit collapsed when Chavez had to be air-lifted to a hospital. Correa, Morales, Ortega and Kirchner are laughable, and Asshat Assange is going nowhere. He’ll have to leave eventually and then its a short stop in Sweden before arriving in a US prison. Don’t worry, Julian. We’ll take good care of you...