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BRITAIN’S Foreign Office turned down Ecuador’s request to grant Wikileaks founder Julian Assange diplomatic immunity today.
Ecuador, which granted citizenship to Mr Assange yesterday, had asked for him to be granted the status in an effort to end his six-year asylum at its London embassy.
Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry has given Mr Assange Ecuadorean citizenship and an ID number for Pichincha province, home to the capital Quito.
LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Noboa’s second term looks set to deepen his neoliberal policies: reduced public investment, privatization, cuts to social programmes, and militarisation, says PILAR TROYA FERNANDEZ