Ecuador alters refuge offer to WikiLeaks founder

[Bacchus39]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101130/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_ecuador_wikileaks_founder


QUITO, Ecuador – Ecuador appears to be modifying its offer of unconditional residency to the embattled founder of the online whistle-blower WikiLeaks.

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said in a TV interview Tuesday that the possibility "will have to be studied from the legal and diplomatic perspective."

His deputy Kintto Lucas said Monday that Ecuador was open to giving Julian Assange residence "without any kind of trouble and without any kind of conditions."

[subsuelo]

1. Sounds like someone got told by the State Dept: "Don't you dare."

[Bacchus39]

2. I don't think the wiki guy would be advised to take Ecuador up on the offer

as more info gets out about happenings in South America

[EFerrari]

3. I don't know. Correa already has a lot on his hands.

I really don't think the State Department has a lot of pull there.