Ecuador: Wikileaks Cables Show how U.S. worked against Correa

Posted on September 10, 2014 • Filed under: Ecuador, Intelligence, Politics, United States

greenleft.org reported In the months leading up to Ecuador’s October 2006 presidential election, the US Embassy in Quito claimed to be impartial. Rather than supporting one particular candidate, then-US ambassador Linda Jewell said the embassy only wanted to help facilitate “a fair and transparent electoral process”. However, diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks show that behind the rhetoric of “democracy promotion”, the embassy sought to stop the election of “dark horse populist, anti-American candidate Rafael Correa”. Read Article

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