President Correa on Assange in a recent interview.

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6. The US still operates through its rightwing contacts

in Latin American countries. Despite the efforts of great leaders like Correa it will take time to remove all those who were complicit in the oppression of these countries.

The people rose up over the past decade in many of those countries and elected what would be the equivalent of Progressive Democrats instead of Right Wing Dictators.

But US Right Wing Corporate powers ARE still operating in S. America, and these Progressive Democratic leaders are still dealing with them. It will take a while, just as we cannot eliminate them from our political system here.

Wrt to our human rights record and Wikileaks, which has received awards FOR its contribution to exposing and in some cases, ending Human Rights abuses, you need to travel abroad to see the difference in attitudes towards the US since the Bush gang made torture and invasion of sovereign countries US policy.

We are not respected. But as Correa pointed out, he does not blame Obama who, he understands because he is in the same position, is still surrounded by rightwing elements in our government and only when those are removed can this country and his be totally free of that shameful past, Abu Ghraib, Torture in South America etc.

As for Amnesty, have you been following their reports on US Human Rights violations?

They do good work, like Wikileaks by highlighting human abuses all over the world. The US government with its 'kill lists' and invasions and killing of innocent people, not so much. To get a perspective of world opinion of this country, you need to travel outside the media bubble created to protect the American people here.