Ecuador wants military base in Miami

[Andre II]

"Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.

Correa has refused to renew Washington's lease on the Manta air base, set to expire in 2009. U.S. officials say it is vital for counter-narcotics surveillance operations on Pacific drug-running routes.

"We'll renew the base on one condition: that they let us put a base in Miami -- an Ecuadorean base," Correa said in an interview during a trip to Italy.

"If there's no problem having foreign soldiers on a country's soil, surely they'll let us have an Ecuadorean base in the United States."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUKADD25267520071022


Wow!
:smoke: :rofl:

[Bitwit1234]

1. Why not..we have one there.

[MountainLaurel]

2. That is fabulously amusing.

Go Correa!

[SoCalDem]

3. How cheeky

and funny as hell :)

[robinlynne]

4. How the hell can you argue with that?

[aquart]

5. And what is not fair and reasonable about that?

I wanna sit between him and Chavez at dinner, with a translator on my lap.

[TheDebbieDee]

6. But, isn't the US paying huge annual lease fees

for this base in Ecuador?

I don't think the US has any military installations outside of the US for which we aren't paying extraordinary lease fees for the land as well as the buildings on these lands.

Methinks President Correa is being a smartass......

[stirlingsliver]

7. Gee...Ya Think?

Who would have ever thought that President Correa might be making fun of the current maladministration in this country???

[TheDebbieDee]

9. The point I was trying to make...........

was that in this age of privatization and money-grubbing gone wild, some entrepreneurial Governor might consider leasing land and buildings to a foreign government to get extra cash.

Who is to say some Governor couldn't do this?

[Captain Hilts]

8. Correctamundo. There's a nice dollar there for Ecuador. We should charge the same for a FL base.