Weekly Report - 23 August 2012 (WR-12-33)

President Rafael Correa is not one to shy away from the global spotlight. The man who invited Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad onto the balcony of the Carondelet presidential palace last January, and joked that if he had come to Ecuador looking for uranium he would be disappointed as the country did not export it, is now grabbing the headlines again. The Correa administration granted diplomatic asylum on 16 August to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, who had been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 19 June, where he sought refuge after losing his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden to face an investigation into allegations of sexual assault.

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