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Did U.S. Lean on Ecuador to Hand Over Assange in Exchange for IMF Loan?
In what is surely just a happy coincidence, less than two months after the government of Ecuador signed an agreement guaranteeing a loan of $4.2 billion from the U.S.-controlled International Monetary Fund (IMF) to that country, Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno revoked the asylum status of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and the latter was arrested.
The IMF loan documents were signed by representatives of the Moreno administration on February 21 and Assange was dragged out of that country’s embassy in London on April 12.
In addition to the $4.2 billion IMF loan, Ecuador’s compliance with the U.S. demand that Assange’s asylum status be revoked triggered the issuance of another $6 billion from other U.S.-dominated global aid funds such as the World Bank. That’s a total of $10.2 billion in cash to a country in desperate need of economic CPR.
The United States not only controls the largest share of the IMF, but pays for the bank’s overhead, a bill that amounts to over $164 billion annually.
Ironically, it was WikiLeaks that published a document penned by the Moreno administration listing some of the hoops through which Ecuador had to jump before the loan would be approved.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/32048-did-u-s-lean-on-ecuador-to-hand-over-assange-in-exchange-for-imf-loan?vsmaid=4296&vcid=5575