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In reply to the discussion: President Correa on Assange in a recent interview. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)would never have arrested Joe Wilson and probably would have supported him in fact.
There are hundreds of thousands of Sarah Palin types and even more Rushbo types in Ecuador, yet none of them have been arrested.
The police were taking bribes from a foreign nation. What would this government do to public employees who were taking bribes from a foreign nation?
Maybe you should check out Ecuador's Right Wing Corporate Controlled media before assuming wrongly, that Correa would arrest the Right Wing Blowhards who fill their airwaves, slamming the left every day.
What's puzzling to me about your attacks on this country is that their government is now the quivalant of what would be a Progressive Democratic Government here. In doing so your are supporting the far Right Wing elements in Ecuador.
Correa eg supports the LGBT and Women's rights in a country that is 95% Catholic. His open support for minorities is well known and has paved the way for Latin America to move forward these issues.
But if want Ecuador back in the hands of the regressive right wing, that is truly very sad indeed. To want to set back the clock for Latin America to the days where Progressives were tortured and disappeared all with the approval of Kissinger and his ilk.
Me, I'm a democrat and I support every effort being made by Latin America to make sure those elements never return to power and that the region continues to progress as it has been doing over the past decade.
This Government should be ecstatic over the progress made in South America and should be encouraging the freedom and democracy established over the past few years, IF they mean it when they claim to support democracy.
Instead we are allies with some of the worst dictatorships in the world, such as Bahrain, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia while continuing to try to destabilize real democracies like Ecuador. Maybe you support that too, I don't know, but I support Progressive Democracy here and elsewhere.