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Any possible relation to the arrest of Assange? IMF board approves $4.2 bln financing deal with Ecuador March 11 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund’s e
by Salamat 7y ago
Any possible relation to the arrest of Assange? IMF board approves $4.2 bln financing deal with Ecuador March 11 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund’s executive board approved the $4.2 billion financing deal with Ecuador https://www.reuters.com/article/ecuador-imf/imf-board-approves-42-bln-financing-deal-with-ecuador-idUSL1N20Y1O6 https://www.reuters.com/article/ecuador-imf/imf-board-approv...
- cheez 7y agoGood question: https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extarr2.aspx?memberKey1=270&date1key=2019-03-31 https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extarr2.aspx?memberK...
- envy2 7y agoThat article is a month old——so, unlikely.
- idlewords 7y agoCall me a patsy, but it seems more likely that Ecuador kicked him out of the embassy because it asked him not to do certain things as a condition of his living there, and he did those things.
- rurban 7y agoNaive patsy then. Ecuador's governments have always been blackmailed by the US via the CIA. Moreno was just an intermediate for them, like Chavez, Allende or Lua, to get over with eventually. In the end there's always either a fascist putsch or electorial takeover. Philip Agee's book "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" explains all the gory details.
- Gpetrium 7y agoEcuador has been reeling with weak economic growth and increased debt for a while now. Although there were still other options to finance their problems for the time being, it is likely that Ecuador has requested IMF financing and it has been blocked at the executive level for a few years on the condition that they played ball. Coupled that with the fact that Assange lost almost all his political capital and 'friendly points' in the past few years, it became a matter of when, not if, Ecuador would trade in.
- CPLX 7y agoIs there any actual evidence for this at all?
- astazangasta 7y agoA good question is, how could we accumulate such evidence? If only someone would, say, publish caches of diplomatic cables so we can know how our governments operate.
- jcriddle4 7y agoTrump is famous for requesting things to "make the deal easier" and then proceeding to ask for even more. So quite possibly Ecuador is going to be finding out fairly soon about additional things they need to do to get those loans.