Declassified sits down with the former president of Ecuador who granted Julian Assange asylum in London. He talks about dealing with the British, how the US seeks to control his country and the lawfare campaign against him.
22 SEPTEMBER 2022 https://declassifieduk.org/
Former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa. (Photo: Phil Miller / Declassified UK)
- “The British are used to being obeyed, not to negotiate with a third-world country. They tried to deal with us like a subordinate country.”
- “Assange didn’t have any possibility of a fair legal process in the United States.”
- “We engaged a special security company in order to protect the London embassy, to protect Julian Assange…They were captured by the CIA.”
- “I cancelled the agreement to have an American base in our country in 2009. These are things that the American authorities do not forgive.”
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