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Andean Group - December 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)
DIPLOMACY: Correa struts his stuff
President Rafael Correa has consistently denied having any pretensions to assume the hemispheric ‘progressive’ leadership mantle of Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez (1998-2013). But he was in his element while hosting the summit of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) over two days on 4 and 5 December in the cities of Guayaquil and Quito, confidently proclaiming the new Unasur headquarters, funded and constructed by Ecuador, to be “the centre of the world”. This was a play on words - the HQ was built in the town Mitad del Mundo, 13km north of Quito, located on the Equator - but the seven-storey building with huge overhangs, designed by a local architect, is a bold assertion of Ecuador’s claim to be right at the heart of the regional integration movement.
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