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- Snowden seeks asylum in Ecuador: minister
Edward Snowden has requested asylum in Ecuador, the Ecuadoran foreign minister said Sunday, as he seeks to escape US justice for revealing secrets of a vast phone and Web surveillance drive.
June 23, 2013 - Fox News - Edward Snowden's Flight To Moscow: The Russians Really Need To Stop Trolling The US
All of the internet is alight with the news that Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong and flown to Moscow. The spy/ whistleblower/ hero/traitor's ultimate destination is, at the time that I write this post, still unknown. The majority of news reports initially indicated that Snowden was headed to Venezuela via Cuba, but he was apparently met at the airport by personnel from the Ecuadoran embassy ...
June 23, 2013 - Forbes - Julian Assange says WikiLeaks helping Snowden gain asylum
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday said members of his anti-secrecy website have been in contact with lawyers of alleged National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and are helping him seek asylum in Iceland.Speaking to reporters during a conference call on the one-year anniversary of his own asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, Assange said his group has a “common cause ...
June 20, 2013 - NBC NEWS
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- Rafael Correa in Boston Globe (registration)
In Ecuador, President Rafael Correa said Uribe had informed him of the combat and that "it appears the FARC entered Ecuadoran territory. The incident must be clarified a bit." - Osvaldo Hurtado in Brisbane Times
The Ecuadoran economy will be pigeonholed by all the organisations as the worst bet in Latin America. As for democracy, there is not doubt it is in grave danger,said Osvaldo Hurtado, former president in 1981-1984 and head of the Christian... - Scott Pelley in San Francisco Chronicle
In return for that$40 million cleanup, "60 Minutes" reporter Scott Pelley asked attorney Steven Donziger, who represents Ecuadoran Amazon residents who filed suit against Texaco in 1993, "the Ecuadoran government signed off and said you're...