Exclusive: Documents Illuminate Ecuador’s Spying Practices

[DevonRex]

6. Quite odd, isn't it, that Snowden wants to go only to countries worse than

the US on hacking and surveillance of their own people and spying on the United States in the cases of China and Russia. I'm actually thinking that there's a new alliance being formed that is of concern. One that rivals a certain situation in the early 1960s in our hemisphere.

Cuba doesn't have the money or natural resources to maintain what's needed. Venezuela does. Ecuador, since defaulting on $billions in debt has been in better shape. But what is their resource? I don't know enough about the country to know how they could support a technological and military buildup.