Assanges asylum is at stake when Ecuador votes Sunday.

[Cattledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/julian-assanges-asylum-is-at-stake-when-ecuador-votes-sunday/2017/03/31/db4608cc-12fe-11e7-bb16-269934184168_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_assange-12pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d0016431f770

QUITO, Ecuador — Julian Assange has defied the world’s most powerful government and intelligence agencies for years. Now his fate will be decided by humble banana workers and Quechua-speaking shopkeepers in the Andean highlands.

Ecuadoran voters will elect a new president Sunday, and one of the two candidates, the conservative former banker Guillermo Lasso, has pledged to evict the WikiLeaks founder from the country’s embassy in London within 30 days of taking office.

Lasso’s opponent, Lenín Moreno, says he will allow Assange to stay. Moreno served for years as deputy to leftist President Rafael Correa, who granted asylum to Assange in 2012 when the Australian super-hacker sought protection from an arrest warrant, saying he feared he would be extradited to the United States.

Assange hasn’t left the embassy since, but Ecuador’s high-maintenance, long-term guest has not been a campaign issue in the race. Voters here are far more concerned with the country’s tanking economy and the authoritarian tendencies and deep divisions created by Correa’s decade-long rule.

Moreno, 64, and Lasso, 61, are virtually tied in the polls.

[OnDoutside]

1. I wonder is there Russian interference there too ? Protecting their mouthpiece.

[dchill]

2. Why doesn't he just go to the Russian Embassy?

[randome]

4. Too late. Can't go from Point A to Point B without being on the street & getting arrested.

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[dchill]

7. Maybe Devin Nunes can pick him up in an Uber.

He's REALLY GOOD at the cloak & dagger.

[randome]

8. Ha! So good he can't face the public! Yeah, he's the mastermind Assange needs!

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[gldstwmn]

11. Maybe he can hide

in Pamela Anderson's cleavage?

[hrmjustin]

3. I hope he ends up in jail.

[randome]

5. He currently is.

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[hrmjustin]

6. I mean real prison.

[NewRedDawn]

9. I am against waterboarding

but this little ratfucker deserves it over & over till he spills all the beans.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Awww

The poor baby