Weekly Report - 20 December 2012 (WR-12-50)

President Rafael Correa has rejected the suggestion that he should assume the mantle of leadership of the ‘progressive’ Left in Latin America from his Venezuelan peer Hugo Chávez. “I have absolutely no interest in being a representative political figure, a regional leader; believe me I have enough work to do in this country,” Correa told the local press. Ecuador, however, has never been in the regional, or indeed global, spotlight as much as under Correa. Most reported are issues such as granting asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks who this week completed his sixth month in Ecuador’s embassy in the UK, and mooted asylum for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. Beyond this eye-catching and controversial diplomatic activity, however, there is a clear pragmatic policy.

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