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March 10, 2017 By Fausta

Assange: Hugo Chavez’s virtues “shook the world”

Julian Assange, still hiding in full view at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, sent a letter to the XV Encounter of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defence of Humanity, held in Caracas, Venezuela (who knew there was such a thing?) earlier this week, praising Hugo Chávez, whose “virtues shook the world:”

[Former Venezuelan president Hugo] Chavez played the most important role on the global stage, with his tireless efforts to continue down the path of regional integration and cooperation and build a multi-polar world.

He denounced injustices as he saw them and in 2001 was the only leader to denounce the killings by the US of innocent civilians in Afghanistan, noting, “You cannot fight terrorism with terrorism”. A little over six months later, the US supported a coup against him that was defeated when hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets, many of them with the constitution in hand.

Like all of us, he was not free from sin, but his virtues shook the world.

He says that as if it were a good thing, but I digress.

Assange went on to denounce Australia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States (of course) as servants of imperialist interests.

Assange’s letter was timed to coincide not only with the latest Wikileaks dump, and the Venezuelan-hosted Encounter, but also with Ecuador’s upcoming runoff election.

Assange did not take time to show solidarity with starving Venezuelans eating garbage.

Assange is not your friend.

Cross-posted at WoW! Magazine.

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Filed Under: Ecuador, Fausta's blog, Venezuela Tagged With: Encounter of the Network of Intellectuals, Julian Assange, Wikileaks

February 9, 2017 By Fausta

Ecuador: If Lasso wins, Assange will need new digs

Ecuador presidential hopeful promises to evict Julian Assange from embassy. Presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso says costly asylum no longer justified. WikiLeaks founder has been living at London embassy for four and a half years

Julian Assange will be given a month’s notice to leave the Ecuadorian embassy if the country’s main opposition candidate wins the presidency in next week’s election.

In an interview with the Guardian, Guillermo Lasso, of the rightwing Creo-Suma alliance, said it was time for the WikiLeaks founder to move on because his asylum was expensive and no longer justified.

The Correa-designated candidate, Lenín Moreno (yes. Lenin for you), is ahead in the polls, but odds are the election will go to a runoff.

Tiko-Tiko the clown is also running for congress under Correa’s party.

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Filed Under: Ecuador Tagged With: Guillermo Lasso, Julian Assange, Lenín Moreno, Tiko-Tiko, Wikileaks

January 19, 2016 By Fausta

Ecuador: Swedish prosecutors to question Assange

Julian Assange Wikileaks Ecuador embassy Patino sweden

Julian Assange is still in the embassy,

Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino has said requests by Swedish prosecutors to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be accepted, so long as Ecuador’s law is respected.
…
Patino said in an interview on Ecuador’s Radio Publica on January 15 that Swedish prosecutors could provide Ecuadorian authorities with questions for Assange. These conditions are to ensure “the sovereignty of the Ecuadorian state and the laws in the constitution are respected.”

Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino stated, “If they don’t charge [Assange], he can leave.”

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Filed Under: Ecuador, England Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Julian Assange, Wikileaks

October 13, 2015 By Fausta

Ecuador: Assange’s police guard removed

Julian Assange: British police end round-the-clock guard at Ecuador embassy

British police say they will no longer stand guard outside London’s Ecuadorian embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took refuge in 2012.

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said it had “withdrawn the physical presence of officers from outside the embassy” but would strengthen a “covert plan” to prevent his departure.

“The operation to arrest Julian Assange does however continue and should he leave the embassy the MPS will make every effort to arrest him,” it said.
. . .
Swedish prosecutors want to question Mr Assange about a rape claim, which carries a 10-year statute of limitations that expires in 2020.
. . .
The 44-year-old Australian also fears that if he leaves he could eventually face extradition to the United States and a trial over the leak of hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010.

Business Insider’s headline, later changed, referred to Assange’s embassy lodgings as a “>bolt-hole.

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Filed Under: Ecuador, England, London Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Julian Assange, Wikileaks

July 9, 2012 By Fausta

Assange comfy…at the Ecuadorian embassy

For Assange, home comforts inside Ecuador embassy

HOW IS ASSANGE LIVING INSIDE THE EMBASSY?
Assange is living and working pretty much as normal inside a small office that also serves as his bedroom. Supporters say he could continue to reside in the embassy, close to the world famous Harrods store in upscale Knightsbridge, for months. Gavin MacFadyen, a supporter and director of the Center for Investigative Journalism at London’s City University, has visited Assange inside the building and says that while “it’s not quite the Hilton,” embassy staffers are “jolly” and getting along well with the activist. The embassy has about five or six rooms and previously was used as a single apartment. Assange has a bed, access to a phone and a connection to the Internet. He can also receive guests, though the space is cramped. The crowded embassy is in sharp contrast to Assange’s last permanent address — Ellingham Hall, a supporter’s elegant country house on vast grounds in eastern England.

Hey, he’s in Knightsbridge, rent-free, and can send out for take-out from Harrods. With that, who needs an “elegant country house on vast grounds”?

Jazz Shaw appraises the situation,

If Ecuador either liked us or feared us enough, we could probably jump in and help the Brits with this Assange extradition situation, but they seem to be neither. That’s not to say that the UK may not still pry Assange out, particularly if helping him doesn’t seem to provide any real benefit to Ecuador, but it looks like the US will be sitting this one out on the sidelines.

Jazz is an optimist: I fully expect the current administration to wait until the foil goes on the windows and then send the American ambassador to call on Julian.

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June 25, 2012 By Fausta

The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

LatinAmerARGENTINA
Diminishing differences between Kirchner and military dictator that invaded Falklands in 1982
Cristina Kirchner may be more Machiavelli than Clausewitz, but, like Galtieri, she’s using the Falklands to distract from the increasing domestic problems that are festering under her tenure

COLOMBIA
Politics and crime in Colombia
Double agent

FARC Smuggle Explosives into Cities via Ecuador Border: Police

CUBA
WATCHDOGS: Solons worry Medicare billions going to Castro, Cuba

Medicare fraud worth billions may be steered to Cuba

“Subversive monstrosity”: 500 Cubans attend internet festival in Havana

The Cuba Fallacy

Hiding Cuba’s crimes behind gay rights lies

Cuban activist Bismark Mustelier sentenced to 2 years in prison

ECUADOR
WikiLeaks Finds Its True Home In Banana Republic Ecuador

Julian Assange Might Want to Think Twice About Seeking Asylum in Ecuador
The Ecuadorian government has treated media organizations harshly, though its president seemed to show sympathy for Wikileaks during a recent, collegial TV interview with Assange.

WikiLeaks’s Assange, Ecuador’s Correa, and the Politics of Anti-Americanism

Otto Reich: US Should Not Sign New Trade Agreements with Ecuador

FALKLAND ISLANDS
Self-determination in the South Atlantic

HONDURAS
Violence in Honduras
The eye of the storm
Timid steps to tame the world’s most violent country

JAMAICA
Organised crime in Jamaica
Dudus gets his due

MEXICO
OBAMA BOWS TO MEXICAN PRESIDENT

And how did it go at the G20?

Mexico election diary
#YoSoy132 at a crossroads

Mexico ready to vote, watchful for fraud

Will the PRI Retake Mexico?
Mexican progress may depend on who comes in second in July’s presidential election.

PARAGUAY
Paternity suits, cancer, and now, impeachment, for the bishop-turned-president: Paraguay Senate says impeachment trial of president will start on Friday (slideshow).

Paraguay’s president vows to fight impeachment

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo vowed on Thursday to stand and fight rather than resign after his opponents launched an impeachment drive over a land eviction in which 17 people died last week.

Is it a coup in Paraguay?

PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico governor presses for bigger federal presence in Caribbean

Crews put boom around freighter grounded off Puerto Rico island, no signs of pollution

Puerto Rican Militant Accepts Plea Deal in Big 1983 U.S. Heist

URUGUAY
Uruguay marijuana sales to be controlled by state
Uruguay is planning a radical approach to the legalisation of marijuana by proposing the sale of the drug be controlled by the state.
Well, that’s one way to make sure the politicians get rich. (h/t GoV)

VENEZUELA
Venezuela’s presidential election
Hugo’s last hurrah
In an election campaign like no other, Hugo Chávez must vanquish his own illness as well as an invigorated opposition

The week’s posts:
Whittle on Fast & Furious

Obama: Latinos in, utensils out!

Paraguay: Lugo impeached

Holder in contempt

Why executive privilege over Fast & Furious?

Assange wants asylum in Ecuador

Smart diplomacy: As global leaders gather in Mexico, Obama chews gum

The problem with Panama

At Hot Air: Paraguay: Lugo will be spending time with his families.


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Filed Under: Argentina, Carnival of Latin America, Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, FARC, Honduras, Hugo Chavez, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela Tagged With: Falkland Islands, Fast and Furious, Fausta's blog, Fernando Lugo, G20, Julian Assange, Wikileaks

June 19, 2012 By Fausta

Assange wants asylum in Ecuador

Julian Assange: WikiLeaks founder seeks political asylum from Ecuador
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has walked into the Ecuadorian Embassy in London seeking political asylum after claiming he had been “abandoned”.

The 40 year-old Australian made the dramatic move after he lost a long-running legal bid to halt his extradition to Sweden, where he faces sex crime allegations.
In a letter sent to Ecuador’s government, Mr Assange said the Australian government had “effectively abandoned” him and was “ignoring the obligation to protect its citizen, who is persecuted politically”.
His move to claim asylum is the latest twist in a marathon legal battle played out in the glare of worldwide publicity.
On Tuesday night, he walked into the embassy, in London’s Knightsbridge district, and asked for asylum under the United Nations Human Rights Declaration.
Officials from the South American nation are considering his request. It comes after Ecuador offered Mr Assange residency in the country in November 2010.

Would not surprise me if he gets it.

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February 21, 2011 By Fausta

The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

ARGENTINA
73% of Argentine journalists support controversial media law, survey finds

BRAZIL
Alternative investments in Brazil
The buys from Brazil
This year’s hot market for private-equity firms and hedge-fund managers

COLOMBIA
The FARC’s farce

Colombia and the United States
Trade disunion
Santos’s China card

COSTA RICA
Costa Rica Loses Land and Seeks an Army

CUBA
Sen. Rubio Questions “Risk” Of Increased Cuba Travel

No education is worth your freedom

Report: Cardinal Ortega tells Cuba prisoner of conscience Iván Hernández he’s about to be released (UPDATED)

“Comrade” Granma

It’s not time to remove Cuba from the terror list

Quick Cartoon: Cuba Change

ECUADOR
Monster or victim?
A court in Ecuador controversially fines Chevron a whopping $9 billion

Sting “ringleader” re-enters Chevron-Ecuador case

HONDURAS
Why is Honduras so poor?

Gobierno debe resolver problema de identificación

MEXICO
US immigration agent killed by gunmen in Mexico

Mexico’s Real War

Panistas laying the groundwork

PARAGUAY
In Cuba for medical treatment, Paraguayan president meets with Raúl and Fidel Castro

PERU
WikiLeaks: Toledo and Humala exploited border dispute to appeal Peru’s nationalist sentiments

VENEZUELA
Libya: Gadhafi Did Not Flee To Venezuela, at least for now. It would be a Burn After Reading situation, “Put him on a plane to Venezuela!”

Venezuela continues its plunge into Cuba-style tyranny

Revolutionary priorities

Criminals or dissidents?
A jailed judge pays the price for defying the president

The week’s posts and podcasts
At Real Clear World, The Hunger Strike in Venezuela

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