Weekly Report - 30 January 2014 (WR-14-04)

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa admitted to “tensions” and “mutual distrust” with the US during a foreign press conference last week, claiming that there were right-wing groups there who “if they had their way would bomb us”. Correa said the US had responded with “the same arrogance as always” when his government had sought an explanation for an article published in The Washington Post on 21 December outlining the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Colombian military’s bombing of a Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) camp on Ecuadorean soil in 2008 [WR-14-01]. He insisted he was not anti-American but would “always denounce double standards” – in others at least.

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