Yazman
30th November 2010, 12:08
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/americas/2010/11/2010113033515743921.html
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An Ecuadorean minister has offered residence in his country to Julian Assange (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/11/20101129123639239818.html), the reclusive founder of WikiLeaks, without conditions.
"We are ready to give him residence in Ecuador, with no problems and no conditions," Kintto Lucas, the deputy foreign minister, told the website Ecuadorinmediato on Monday.
"We are going to invite him to come to Ecuador so he can freely present the information he possesses and all the documentation, not just over the internet but in a variety of public forums."
Assange has enraged the US, and many other countries, by releasing masses of classified US documents, including a dump of embarrassing diplomatic cables (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/11/20101129162137921391.html) and documents related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq earlier this year.
After the latest leak, Australian police (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/11/2010112961154954144.html) said they had begun investigating whether any of the country's laws were broken by the release. Assange is an Australian national.
This is something small and let me address it directly first of all - I'm quite pleased to hear this coming out, especially as I had been thinking Assange would be well-advised to seek asylum in Cuba as others have done in the past, but in a Bolivarian nation even easier for Assange. So I'm quite pleased to hear this.
The article itself however got me thinking about Ecuador's direction under Correa (which I haven't seen a good topic on in a while). There seems to have been quite a few changes in this time and while Correa is certainly more moderate than Chavez, they seem to be getting many more significant changes through (like constitutional changes). I tend to think as far as reformists go I am beginning to much prefer Correa over Chavez (even if I don't agree with reformism), particularly as changes actually seem to be getting made whereas Venezuela seems to go through periods of stagnation rather than progress.
What does everybody think of the government of Ecuador and how it has been under Rafael Correa?
Click spoiler tag for snippet. Click the above link for the full article:
An Ecuadorean minister has offered residence in his country to Julian Assange (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/11/20101129123639239818.html), the reclusive founder of WikiLeaks, without conditions.
"We are ready to give him residence in Ecuador, with no problems and no conditions," Kintto Lucas, the deputy foreign minister, told the website Ecuadorinmediato on Monday.
"We are going to invite him to come to Ecuador so he can freely present the information he possesses and all the documentation, not just over the internet but in a variety of public forums."
Assange has enraged the US, and many other countries, by releasing masses of classified US documents, including a dump of embarrassing diplomatic cables (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/11/20101129162137921391.html) and documents related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq earlier this year.
After the latest leak, Australian police (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/11/2010112961154954144.html) said they had begun investigating whether any of the country's laws were broken by the release. Assange is an Australian national.
This is something small and let me address it directly first of all - I'm quite pleased to hear this coming out, especially as I had been thinking Assange would be well-advised to seek asylum in Cuba as others have done in the past, but in a Bolivarian nation even easier for Assange. So I'm quite pleased to hear this.
The article itself however got me thinking about Ecuador's direction under Correa (which I haven't seen a good topic on in a while). There seems to have been quite a few changes in this time and while Correa is certainly more moderate than Chavez, they seem to be getting many more significant changes through (like constitutional changes). I tend to think as far as reformists go I am beginning to much prefer Correa over Chavez (even if I don't agree with reformism), particularly as changes actually seem to be getting made whereas Venezuela seems to go through periods of stagnation rather than progress.
What does everybody think of the government of Ecuador and how it has been under Rafael Correa?