“Ecuador has ramped up its defiance of the US over Edward Snowden by waiving preferential trade rights with Washington even as the whistleblower’s prospect of reaching Quito dimmed. President Rafael Correa’s government said on Thursday it was renouncing the Andean Trade Preference Act to thwart US ‘blackmail’ of Ecuador in the former NSA contractor’s asylum request. Officials, speaking at an early morning press conference, also offered a $23m donation for human rights training in the US, a brash riposte to recent US criticism of Ecuador’s own human rights record.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/ecuador-us-trade-pact-edward-snowden
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