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In reply to the discussion: President Correa on Assange in a recent interview. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)countries, especially those where the countries are struggling for independence from Western Corporate Powers, are generally not given much credibility around the world. And will not be until the US does something about its own criminal abuses of human rights, here and elsewhere. What is sad about the US now, once able to speak with authority on those rights, is how many countries respond to SOS Hillary Clinton's annual reports on Human Rights, by pointing to our own record and reminding the world that the US has no moral authority in this area any more.
The US wants puppet governments in South America as they had throughout the cold war, dictators who brutally abused, tortured, disappeared and murdered their own citizens, which was okay with the US and which those Latin American countries like Ecuador, are now workig to overcome.
Correa is one of the most of the most popular leaders in Latin America. It does the US no good to go back to its old ways of trying to demonize those the PEOPLE choose as their leaders.
It may be easy to fool the American people regarding US history in Latin America, but as Correa said in the above interview, it was when the majority of the people rose up and rejected the terrible policies backed by the US, that people like him came to power.
So linking to a US State Report on Latin America has really no credibility, until the US acknowledges its role in the corruption and genocide and torture over the past decades, of the people of Latin America.
Btw, the police in Ecuador, were being funded, even under Correa, by the US embassy. So, abuses by the police against indigenous people, are not a reflection on Correa, they are a continuation of those old Cold War policies so devastating to the people of that region of the world.
Correa cut that funding off and did what any sovereign country would to do a foreign Ambassador helping treasonous actions in their country, he sent the US ambassador home.