'World order unjust and immoral!' Ecuador’s Correa rips into Snowden coverage

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By: Rt.com , 06/27/2013

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.(Reuters / Ricardo Rojas)

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa came up with scalding online remarks over criticism his country faced from the US press for potentially granting asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. “They’ve managed to focus attention on Snowden and on the ‘wicked’ countries that ‘support’ him, making us forget the terrible things against the US people and the whole world that he denounced,” Correa said Wednesday in response to a Tuesday Washington Post editorial. “The world order isn’t only unjust, it’s immoral,” Correa added.

 

The US newspaper accused Correa of adhering to double standards in the NSA leaker case, as Ecuador is considering harboring Snowden from prosecution over US espionage charges. It descried the Ecuadoran president as “the autocratic leader of a tiny, impoverished” country with an ambition to replace the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez as “the hemisphere’s preeminent anti-US demagogue”.

 

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Snowden never officially went

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Snowden never officially went to Ecuador or other countries...

wow, US government really exposing their own deception on this one!!!

LOLOL !