What do Ecuadoreans think of Assange?
Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012 10:24 AM EDT
What do Ecuadoreans think of Assange?
Ecuador’s people are wary of foreign meddling, but some deeply mistrust the motives of their own president
By Simeon Tegel, GlobalPost
... But even some who disagreed with the asylum offer for WikiLeaks’ founder rejected the British government’s suggestion that it would withdraw diplomatic status from the Ecuadorean embassy in order to arrest the Australian.
Nicholas Gaoht, a 21-year-old economy student at Quito’s San Francisco University, defended Ecuador’s right to offer Assange asylum although he was no admirer of the Australian’s work, or Correa’s handling of the affair.
“I think WikiLeaks is just a rumor mill. I don’t view what it did as important,” he told GlobalPost. “And there are double standards in the way Correa has given him asylum but treats the press here.
“If Assange was an Ecuadorean journalist, the government would persecute him. But now that the decision has been made, it needs to be accepted, including by the British government” ...
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/22/what_do_ecuadoreans_think_of_assange_salpart/
