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Geopolitics

Interview With Assange, Ecuadorian President Sounds Off On America

EL COMERCIO (Ecuador)

QUITO - Why will there never be a coup d"état in the United States? "Because it doesn't have an American embassy," Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa told Wikileak's founder Julian Assange in an interview broadcast Tuesday on Russia Today.

The left-wing leader credited the joke to his Bolivian counterpart, Evo Morales. "I really love and admire the U.S. people," Correa said. "The last thing I'd be is anti-American. But I'll always call it like I see it. If there are U.S. policies that go against Latin America or Ecuador, I have to say something."

El Comercio highlighted several other of President Correa's more memorable comments:

On the subject of the U.S. military base in Manta, Ecuador, Correa said his government will be happy to renew America's license to operate there "as soon as they give us permission to set up an Ecuadorian base in Miami."

The Ecuadorian leader also spoke about his decision last year to expel U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges. "She was a woman who was totally adverse to our government, a woman from the far right who was stuck seeing things in a 1960s Cold War framework," he said.

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Trump Indicted, India Temple Collapses, Paltrow Cleared

Rescue operations under way after the well covering at a temple in Indore, in central India, collapsed, killing at least 35.

Emma Albright, Inès Mermat & Anne-Sophie Goninet

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Welcome to Friday, where Donald Trump becomes the first U.S. president to face criminal charges, at least 35 are killed after a well covering collapses at a temple in India, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s bizarre trial comes to a close. Meanwhile, Nicaraguan publication Divergentes takes the temperature of the clubbing scene, impacted by both the country’s Sandinista past and emigration.

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