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[Judi Lynn]

Correa gives 48 hours of a U.S. embassy official to leave Ecuador

President was outraged by a letter from Armando Astorga on the abolition of money to the police.

by EFE | 07/02/2009 - 16:30

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, took 48 hours for an aggregate of U.S. Embassy leave the country after an official sent a letter to the General Command of the local police, which was described as "insolent"

"Lord Chancellor of the Republic (Fando Falconí), listen to me, gives 48 hours a gentleman Armando Astorga to take your bags and throughout this country. We are not going to accept that no one treats us as a colony," said Correa in weekly report of their work.

The president read a letter sent to the Police Command by Armando Astorga, who, as head of state, "adding he was the U.S. Embassy," but did not specify what unit.

In that letter, according to Correa, Astorga reportedly have decided to terminate "the understanding of logistical and operational support provided to the unit's operations center of the Anti National Intelligence of the National Police."

According to the Head of State, in the center, USA andalusia andalusia qualified staff and commander of the unit, which gave the order to "finish" with the situation.

For Correa, the letter of Astorga and other economic reprisals in this area respond to the decision taken by his government to end the rating on U.S. law enforcement personnel.

The letter of January 8 and made public today by Correa, Astorga reported that since January 9 2009 "are suspended $ 340,000 annual operational and logistical support" for that unit of the Police.

"Mr. Astorga, keep your dirty money, we do not need, here is the sovereignty and dignity, keep your $ 340,000, silly, rude," Correa said, adding that is returned "to the final draft" released by the United States for that dependence, because, he said, "Ecuador does not need charity from anyone."

The president noted that next Monday will be delivered to Astorga a letter to confirm that it is not required of $ 340,000 or $ 160,000 annual U.S. was to provide logistical and operational support for the national unit to combat trafficking in persons.

http://www.latercera.com/contenido/678_99798_9.shtml

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And, another one:

The president of Ecuador expels an aggregate of U.S. Embassy
20:04

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, today gave a deadline of 48 hours for an aggregate of U.S. embassy outside the country, having qualified as "insolent" an official letter addressed to the General Command of the local police.

EFE In this letter, the diplomat reported that the U.S. was ended by "logistical and operational support to the Ecuadorian police, apparently in response to Correa's refusal to the United States qualified to Ecuadorian officials.

In its weekly report, said that Correa ordered the Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Falconi Fando, which "gives you 48 hours a gentleman Armando Astorga to take your bags and throughout this country. We are not going to accept that no one treats us as a colony. "

The president read a letter sent to the Police Command by Armando Astorga, who said that acting "as added by the U.S. embassy," but did not specify what unit.

In this missive Astorga reported that the U.S. was completed by "the understanding of logistical and operational support provided to the unit's operations center anticotrabando from the National Intelligence of the National Police of Ecuador.

For Correa, the letter of Astorga and other economic reprisals in this area, responding to its decision to end the rating on the U.S. police in Ecuador.

In the letter dated January 8, Astorga reported that since January 9 2009 "are suspended $ 340,000 annual operational and logistical support" for this unit of the Police.

"Mr. Astorga, keep your dirty money, we do not need, here is the sovereignty and dignity, keep your $ 340,000, silly, rude," said Correa in emphatic tone is returned to add that "until the last draft" released by State United for this unit because "Ecuador does not need charity from anyone."

The president said that next Monday will be delivered to Astorga a letter to confirm that it is not required of $ 340,000 or $ 160,000 per year that the U.S. would provide logistical and operational support for the national unity.

Correa said that the letter, Ecuador proposes giving a donation to U.S. $ 160,000 per year for a project to prevent torture in the United States because it is being tortured in prisons such as Guantanamo. "

"These gentlemen do not know who they are trying," he added to ensure that recently the U.S. Embassy, Heather Hodges, asked him to exit after this year's U.S. operations center of the Manta base (west) are allowed U.S. Coast Guard aircraft landing control drugs in Ecuadorian soil.

Correa said today that discussed the issue and said that it accepts the landing of aircraft, but with one condition: "That we have to qualify for the pilots of these aircraft to us not getting any offender in our country."

"We qualified pilots or not, I did not land any American plane," said Correa in ratifying the charter is Astorga "extremely serious".

He said this is a "spoiled and shameless intervention by an official at the U.S. Embassy in affairs of our country."

"This poor man does not have understood that Government is already here and we are not a U.S. colony, but in a dignified and sovereign country," stressed andalusia hoped that "in 48 hours this man is out of the country."

A source from the U.S. Embassy told Efe that this is an official Astorga legation, but did not specify what took charge and simply note that this is a "diplomat."

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