There is a growing number of signs that the days of Washington, DC dictating policy to the rest of the world are numbered. The latest case comes from Ecuador. RT America reports:
Ricardo Patrino & Ecuador refuse to be bullied by the United States
Ecuador does not fear US revenge for granting asylum to Julian Assange. Despite America’s power in the world, it is not Ecuador’s “father or teacher to punish us,” the country’s foreign minister said exclusively to RT Spanish host Eva Golinger.
“We don’t think that any punishment is possible, nor do we think that there is a reason for revenge (let’s call it this way, it is stronger than “punishment”) for Ecuador’s sovereign decision. The USA does it every day,” Ricardo Patino said.
Ecuador believes that the situation around Assange, who is wanted in Sweden for questioning on sexual assault allegations, will not provoke a breach in relations between his country and the US because there are no grounds for the relationship to worsen.
“The only difference is that it may appear now that a small, less-developed country has fewer rights to protect freedom and lives of other people than world powers,” Patino told Eva Golinger, RT Spanish TV host, lawyer and writer. “We have the same rights as they do. We will not accept any revenge in any case,” he stressed.
Ecuador has granted Assange asylum after neither Britain nor Sweden would grant assurances that he would not be re-extradited to the United States.
Hopefully Equator can serve as a role model for modern day Southerners.