Telesur — Ecuador Opposition Leaders to Ask for US Sanctions on Country

An opposition supporter who recently emerged after a year in hiding as a fugitive from justice told a private media station Friday that he intended to go to Washington in order to have the U.S. government apply unilateral sanctions against Ecuador as they have done with Venezuela. “We are going to ask the U.S. senate commission (sic) to analyze the case of Ecuador the violation of human rights and specific cases of corruption so that the same measures and sanctions that the Obama government recently imposed on Venezuela be imposed (on Ecuador),” Fernando Villavicencio told Ecuavisa....

Villavicencio was a political adviser to Jimenez, who sat in congress as a member of the opposition-aligned Pachakutik party. The party bills itself as left-wing but has taken controversial positions, including support for the 2010 coup attempt against the democratically-elected president.

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Ecuador Opposition Leaders to Ask for US Sanctions on Country