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Andean Group - December 2008 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Relations with Brazil cloud

On 22 November Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, telephoned President Rafael Correa of Ecuador to say how unhappy he was at Ecuador's decision to take legal action against a Brazilian bank. Lula underlined his irritation by recalling Brazil's ambassador to Ecuador, Antonio Marques Porto, for consultations. On 1 December Brazil's foreign minister, Celso Amorim, gave an interview to a leading Brazilian newspaper, Folha de São Paulo , in which he said Marques was not likely to return to Quito any time soon.

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