Ecuadorian
President Lenin Moreno has made no secret of his annoyance with the
man he refers to a “hacker,” calling Assange “a stone in his
shoe” as Ecuador seeks to restructure itself as a trusted ally of
the United States.
by
Elliott Gabriel
Part
5 - Correa defends his moves
Rafael
Correa currently lives with his wife in her home country, Belgium.
The former president has been locked in a struggle with his one-time
vice president and handpicked successor, Moreno, since shortly after
leaving office.
Correa
dismissed the accusations as a “sensationalistic” story about
routine affairs that only seeks to whip up further animus against his
erstwhile administration rather than make “a serious report to find
out the truth.” Speaking to The Intercept, Correa said: “Of
course we provided security to Assange in the embassy … It was our
duty under the law to do so. We had the U.K. government threatening
to break into the embassy. We spent what amounts to a small amount of
money to provide security.”
For
Correa, Moreno’s sacrifice of Assange is a transparent attempt to
prostrate the former “banana republic” at the feet of Washington,
opening the door to imperialist “control, intervention, espionage”
and the all-round submission of the country.
As
Iliopoulos told Bloomberg: “Investors loved that Moreno broke
with Correa the way he did, and that gave him a huge honeymoon at the
start … The good will is there, but it’s not a blank check.”
Citing
the Assange case and realignment of Ecuador with the U.S., Correa has
no doubt: “Moreno is betraying the Citizen’s Revolution in
terms of our foreign policy.”
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