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[–] TcM482hb 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

"Last December the New York Times revealed the country’s president tried to sell Assange to the US for debt relief. Ecuador received $4.2 billion in a US backed IMF bailout on February 4."

International law means nothing if the bribe is big enough. Paul Kennedy was right when he wrote in "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" that countries are run by a gang of thugs.