Interpol Rejects Demand to Arrest Ecuador’s Correa in Politicized “Kidnapping” Case

Since coming to power last May, President Lenin Moreno – a handpicked successor of Correa – has fought to remove any trace of Correa’s influence from the ruling party the charismatic leftist once led.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Rafael Correa

BRUSSELS -- Three months after an Ecuadorian court requested that Interpol issue a “red alert” to detain, imprison, and extradite former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, the former head of state remains free and has continued to wage his legal defense against charges emanating from officials in the government of President Lenin

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US Suddenly Buys More Ecuadorian Oil: Is Trump Also Buying Assange’s Arrest?

Over the last two weeks, the U.S. has imported a record amount of Ecuadorian oil, leading to speculation that a deal or pay-off may have been made to ensure Moreno’s cooperation with Washington’s long-standing efforts to have Assange arrested and extradited.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno gives a press conference with the foreign media corp in Quito, Ecuador, July 5, 2018. Dolores Ochoa | AP

MADRID -- Speaking in Madrid on Friday, Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno told an audience that WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange would need to leave Ecuador’s London embassy “eventually.” Moreno offered no time-table for Assange’s possible exit, which several sources just last week asserted could take place within “weeks” or

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Ecuador Rumored to Hand Julian Assange to UK Authorities in “Days” or “Weeks”

Though Ecuador’s President Moreno campaigned as a progressive leftist in the style of Rafael Correa, his predecessor who had granted Assange asylum, he has shown himself to be eager to return Ecuador to the fold of U.S. and U.K. influence and neoliberal economic policies.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves after greeting supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, May 19, 2017 (AP/Frank Augstein)

LONDON – Julian Assange, London’s – and perhaps the world’s – most famous political prisoner and refugee, is in grave danger as the threat of his arrest and subsequent extradition to the United States appears imminent. The U.S. has been preparing espionage and treason charges against Assange, the editor-in-chief of transparency organization

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For Ecuador, Currying Favor with Washington is as Simple as Sacrificing Julian Assange

Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has made no secret of his annoyance with the man he refers to a “hacker,” calling Assange “a stone in his shoe” as Ecuador seeks to restructure itself as a trusted ally of the United States.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appears via teleconference at the Digital Culture Forum, organized by Argentina's Ministry of Culture, October 15, 2015. (Photo: Romina Santarelli/Flickr)

LONDON -- For all practical purposes, whistleblower and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is now a prisoner in asylum at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, facing the torture of near-total isolation from the outside world and hanging by the thread of the Andean state’s dwindling hospitality. On Thursday, the Australian – who, strangely enough, was

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Ecuador’s Drastic Pro-US Rightward Swing Continues with Disavowal of ELN-Colombia Peace Talks

The suspension of Ecuador’s role as mediator in Colombia comes amid its broader shift to the right and realignment with the United States by Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
United States ambassador Todd Chapman (wearing white hat) and others accompanied by Ecuador's Foreign Minister Fernanda Espinosa, left, leave the government palace after a meeting where the ambassadors showed their support for Ecuador's government in view of the recent events on the border between Ecuador and Colombia, in Quito, Ecuador, April 17, 2018. (AP/Dolores Ochoa)

QUITO, ECUADOR (Analysis) -- Ecuador’s government has pulled the plug on its support for peace talks between the Colombian government and the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN), noting that it would not condone such talks as long as the ELN continues to wage its armed struggle against the state. The guerilla group remains the largest in

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Ecuador, Assange and the Empire: Anatomy of a Neoliberal Sellout

Under Ecuador’s new government, the gagging of Assange has long been a matter of when, not if. It’s only the latest sign of a once-defiant nation’s newfound subservience to Washington and Europe.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Left to right: Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, Julian Assange, and Rafael Correa (AP photos, MPN Photo Illustration)

LONDON -- You can call the Ecuadorian government’s disconnection of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s internet connection and ban on contact with the outside world a lot of things: unfair, treacherous, a signal of surrender to the West. Such was the reaction of internet users and journalists throughout the world following an announcement by

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