President Correa on Assange in a recent interview.

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10. Actually most Latin American countries, now struggling to overcome their

past dictatorships, are good examples of a region of the world working to eliminate human rights abuses that went on for decades.

Ecuador is not a dictatorship, it is a democracy, like the US, so ending all of these abuses, especially by the police, many of whom were being rewarded by outside right wing sources, will take time.

Our own judicial system here, is no example to be held up as a pinnacle of support for human rights.

In fact our prison system is among the worse in the civilized world not to mention we still practice the medieval barbarity known as the Death Penalty.

There is no Death Penalty in Ecuador, Venezuela or any of the European countries.

We stand alone among civilized nations to still be practitioners of that most barbaric of policies.

Not to mention, since even Saudi Arabia has abolished it for those who committed crimes while minors, we are the only nation to still put minors to death. This may have changed recently, but I have not checked but last I looked it was still in place.

If we want to point fingers at Ecuador, and it's amusing to see how each time a country takes a stand based on its own right as a sovereign nation, someone always jumps in with a list of charges, most of them when put in perspective, easily seen for what they are, an attempt to discredit ANYONE who dares to be independent of our influence.

How about just dealing with the issues at hand, instead of this constant attempt to NOT discuss the actual issues, but to distract from them, which has now become such a transparent tactic, it only serves to make us look even worse.