Weekly Report - 30 August 2012 (WR-12-34)

 “It is now or never for the Farc.” That is how Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa responded to “one of the best pieces of news in decades” this week - that the Colombian government was pursuing a peace accord with the country’s largest guerrilla group. Correa said he prayed that talks would reach a “happy conclusion”. It is not clear if Ecuador’s talks with the UK over the destination of the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, who is still holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, will reach the same “happy conclusion”, but the diplomatic struggle moved to a new level this week when the British foreign secretary, William Hague, met Ecuador’s Vice-President Lenín Moreno in London.

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