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发帖数: 4385 | 1 ＂Correa, a U.S.-educated economics professor whose father spent time in an
American jail for smuggling cocaine, has long butted heads with the U.S.
though he rarely garnered as much attention as his ally Chavez, who died in
March from cancer.
Shortly after taking office in 2007, Correa refused to renew a U.S. lease on
the Manta military base, shutting down a facility that had been a linchpin
of the U.S.-led drug war in South America. Then in 2011, he expelled U.S.
Ambassador Heather Hodges after WikiLeaks published a secret State
Department cable from her saying Correa was aware of corruption in the
police.
The two countries exchanged new ambassadors last year amid a push by Correa
to maintain duty-free access for Ecuador’s exports, though negotiations
fell apart and relations plunged to a new low after Correa granted Assange
asylum last year.＂
From Bloomberg |
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