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  • China poised to take over U.S. base at Ecuador's invitation

    12/09/2007 7:05:00 AM PST · by sukhoi-30mki · 21 replies · 398+ views
    World Tribune ^ | December 7, 2007
    China poised to take over U.S. base at Ecuador's invitation Ecuador’s president has offered the Chinese government an airbase currently serving as one of the last U.S. military outposts in South America. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said during his recent visit to China that he would offer Beijing a lease on the Manta Airport, the presidential website reported last week. Currently, Manta is used by U.S. military forces for operations. The contract is up in 2009 and Correa will not renew it, a transport and public works ministry communications official told BNamericas. Correa said access to the air base is...
  • Wanted by Ecuador, 2 Brothers Make Mark in U.S. Campaigns (donated $90K to Obama)

    03/12/2014 5:09:12 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 9 replies
    NY Times ^ | March 11, 2014 | FRANCES ROBLES
    MIAMI — The donations kept pouring in: hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to President Obama and more than a dozen members of Congress, carefully routed through the families of two wealthy brothers in Florida. They had good reason to be generous. The two men, Roberto and William Isaias, are fugitives from Ecuador, which has angrily pressed Washington to turn them over, to no avail. A year after their relatives gave $90,000 to help re-elect Mr. Obama, the administration rejected Ecuador’s extradition request for the men, fueling accusations that such donations were helping to keep the brothers and...
  • Hollywood has been more heavily censored since 2001, films bashing US army & CIA can’t go public – Oliver Stone to RT

    01/31/2020 10:47:47 PM PST · by ransomnote · 20 replies
    rt.com ^ | Jan 30, 2020 | RT
    The American film industry changed beyond recognition after the milestone year of 2001, director Oliver Stone told RT, with producers using financial restraints to censor movies challenging the US military or the CIA. “Maybe in the 1980s, when I did ‘Platoon’, ‘Born on the Fourth of July’ and ‘Heaven & Earth’, I could do that, because it was a slightly more relaxed system,” said the award-winning filmmaker, mentioning his famed movies while making his case during former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa’s show on RT Spanish. When the Iron Curtain fell and the Cold War ended, things didn’t change for the...
  • Swedish software developer who is allegedly close to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is arrested

    04/11/2019 6:56:52 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 38 replies
    BREAKING: Swedish software developer who is allegedly close to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is arrested at Quito airport, Ecuadorian official says.
  • President of Ecuador Tweets ‘Heil Hitler’

    04/11/2015 10:08:34 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 6 replies
    INN ^ | 4/12/2015, 7:55 AM | Tova Dvorin
    Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa caused a firestorm Thursday, after he tweeted “Heil Hitler!” during a political debate. Correa’s tweet was in response to Panamanian politician Guillermo Cochez, who tweeted the first line from former Ecuadorian President Osvaldo Hurtado’s speech last week calling Correa “fascist.” Correa’s response, meant as a tongue-in-cheek way of responding to that claim, is just one of many spotty tweets. In another days later, he referred to US President Barack Obama under questionable terms, stating, “it is worrisome that an Afro minimizes history.” …
  • Ecuador’s President Cancels Visit to Israel

    08/06/2014 9:49:33 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 9 replies
    INN ^ | 8/7/2014, 4:43 AM | Elad Benari
    Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has cancelled his visit to Israel scheduled for the second half of this year due to “Israeli attacks against the Palestinians”, Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing Ecuador’s Andes Agency. During an interview with a local radio station on Wednesday, the president reportedly accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge. …
  • Ecuador sends 10,000 troops to Colombia border

    12/25/2011 12:05:14 PM PST · by decimon · 11 replies
    AFP ^ | December 24, 2011
    Ecuador has deployed some 10,000 security forces to its border with Colombia to deal with a "most grave" security problem, President Rafael Correa said Saturday. Correa said the troops and police forces were deployed to bolster security amid concerns about "organized crime, drug trafficking (and) irregular groups," including paramilitary groups and Marxist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia known as FARC.
  • Otto J. Reich: 21st Century Socialism - The attempt to destroy democracy in Latin America.

    04/23/2010 9:58:55 AM PDT · by neverdem · 5 replies · 343+ views
    NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | April 23, 2010 | Otto J. Reich
    21st Century SocialismThe attempt to destroy democracy in Latin America.  The Obama administration started out on the wrong foot in world affairs. It used techniques better suited for domestic political campaigns — popularity contests — in its foreign policy. In our own hemisphere, the result was confusion for our allies and our enemies alike. The overriding objective of U.S. policy — in Latin America and elsewhere — should be to advance U.S. national interests, not to curry favor with foreign leaders. If we can be liked while advancing our interests, so much the better. But when we try to befriend...
  • University of Illinois Alums Honor Ecuadoran Crook

    04/12/2010 6:44:23 PM PDT · by BobMcCartyWrites · 1 replies · 189+ views
    Bob McCarty Writes ^ | 4-12-10 | Bob McCarty
    I was not at all surprised to learn the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni association honored Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa.
  • Report Bolsters Support for Chevron in Ecuador

    01/26/2010 11:14:05 AM PST · by BobMcCartyWrites · 1 replies · 266+ views
    Bob McCarty Writes ^ | 1-26-10 | Bob McCarty
    Some people wonder why I've shown so much interest -- almost 30 posts to date -- in the 16-year-old lawsuit Chevron Corporation has been battling in Ecuador. Aside from the fact that Chevron stands to lose as much as $27 billion if an Ecuadoran judge rules in favor of the plaintiff, part of my interest stems from the fact that a thick cloud of corruption surrounds Rafael Correa, a man who has been mentioned in a half-dozen posts (including the one you're reading). And so I bring more news about the president of the South American banana republic country that...
  • THE GIANT NO ONE SEES: RED REVOLUTION COMES TO "GREEN GIANT" BRAZIL

    11/03/2009 1:23:40 AM PST · by Cindy · 35 replies · 2,706+ views
    INATODAY.com - INTERNATIONAL NEWS ANALYSIS TODAY ^ | November 3, 2009 | Toby Westerman
    SNIPPET: "Lula and Chavez have established a "strategic relationship," and recently agreed upon a joint Brazilian-Venezuelan oil venture worth billions of dollars. Lula and Chavez have joined with Daniel Ortega, the returned Nicaraguan Marxist dictator, to form an anti-U.S. Latin American military alliance - all with Russian assistance - funded by the region's abundant oil reserves. Brazil is engaged in its own arms build-up and Lula is determined that Brazil will become at least a first-rate regional power. Unfortunately, Lula is establishing Brazil as an anti-American military power by aligning with nations hostile or potentially hostile to the U.S. Lula...
  • Obama wins praise at summit but feels heat on Cuba (Our clueless POTUS)

    04/18/2009 1:09:51 PM PDT · by milwguy · 17 replies · 773+ views
    reuters ^ | 4/18/2009 | David Alexander and Ana Isabel Martinez
    U.S. President Barack Obama won praise on Saturday for reaching out to the Americas at a regional summit but Latin American and Caribbean leaders pressured him to end the long-standing U.S. embargo on Cuba. Obama, attending his first Summit of the Americas, has promised an era of better cooperation with the hemisphere and offered a new start to communist-ruled Cuba. He won early approval from left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The warm reception for Obama from countries from Brazil to Venezuela contrasted with the last Americas Summit four years ago in Argentina, where leftists like Chavez attacked the "imperialist" policies...
  • AP Newsbreak: Rebel video hounds Ecuador's Correa

    07/17/2009 12:41:00 PM PDT · by SmithL · 2 replies · 360+ views
    AP via SFGate ^ | 7/17/9 | FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press Writer
    BOGOTA, Columbia (AP) -- An hour-long video police found in a computer of an alleged rebel appears to dispel any doubts that Colombia's largest rebel army gave money to the 2006 election campaign of President Rafael Correa of Ecuador. The video shows the second-ranking commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia reading the deathbed manifesto of founding leader Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda. The manifesto clearly acknowledges FARC contributions to Correa's campaign, but it's still possible that Correa wasn't aware of them. The video, given to The Associated Press by a government official on condition of anonymity due to political sensitivity,...
  • Leftist Protestors in Ecuador Force Evacuation of National Legislature (Translation & Photos)

    01/30/2007 5:16:41 PM PST · by StJacques · 18 replies · 386+ views
    Diario Hoy ( Quito ) ^ | January 30, 2007 | staff ( translated by self )
    VIOLENCE IN PROTESTS SUPPORTING A CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY Deputies evacuate the Congress amid insults and gas The police pushed back hundreds of protestors from the zone bordering the National Congress Tuesday January 30th, after confrontations occurred between the police and protesters who demanded the restoration of a Constituent Assembly. A contingent of police with anti-disturbance armored vehicles and material pushed back the protestors who surrounded the building and broke up violent groups. The Congress had begun its session to debate the documentation remitted by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on the calling of the popular consultation for the Constituent Assembly, which...
  • Ecuador aligns itself with Venezuela, Bolivia, and Cuba

    01/15/2007 2:45:15 PM PST · by StJacques · 36 replies · 1,351+ views
    El Mundo ( Bolivia ) ^ | January 15, 2007 | AP wire service in Spanish ( translated by self )
    Ecuador aligns itself with Venezuela, Bolivia, and Cuba In speeches against imperialism and neoliberalism, the presidents of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, and Bolivia, Evo Morales, and the Ecuadoran President-Elect Rafael Correa, who should assume the government of his country Monday, expressed common ideological and political agreement Sunday. Chavez, Morales, and Correa, who also exalt the figure of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, met together in Zumbahua, an indigenous [Ecuadoran] locality 90 kilometers south of Quito, for a symbolic inauguration of Correa before the indigenous peoples [of Ecuador]. In a speech before a multitude congregated in the central plaza, Correa emphasized that "[Latin]...
  • Ecuador candidate defends Chavez ties

    09/26/2006 1:59:59 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 5 replies · 272+ views
    Tehran Times ^ | September 26 2006 | Associated Press
    QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- The presidential front-runner said on Monday he is proud to call Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez his friend. Rafael Correa also said he would not extend the U.S. military's use of the Pacific coast Manta air base as an operational site for drug surveillance flights when the treaty runs out in 2009. "A symbol of sovereignty is to not have foreign soldiers on national soil," he said. The only way the U.S. military presence would continue in Ecuador was if Washington allowed "an Ecuadorean military base in Miami," he said. Correa said he does not see what...