Part
2 - Pence Finds an Eager Ecuador
U.S.
Vice President Pence started his third Latin American tour on June
26, which took him to Brazil, Ecuador and Guatemala. As the U.S.
announced its new attempt to “restore democracy to Venezuela,”
images and videos of Latin American toddlers and children kept in
prison-like conditions after being separated from their relatives by
U.S. authorities flooded the internet.
The
world and people of the U.S. responded with outrage. But outrage did
not make its way to Ecuador’s presidential palace, Carondelet.
During
the joint press conference, Moreno failed to denounce Trump’s
immigration policy, instead he thanked the U.S. government for “its
commitment to put an end to this humanitarian problem,” while
Pence focused on Venezuela’s economic migrants and then went on to
“respectfully urge Ecuador... to take further steps to isolate
the Maduro regime.”
Intentionally
or not, the judicial order for preventive prison for former President
Rafael Correa, allegedly linked to a failed kidnapping in 2012, has
served that purpose. On July 4, Moreno’s foreign minister Jose
Valencia Amores, announced the suspension of the trip of Ecuador's
new envoy to Venezuela and recalled its ambassador in Bolivia for
consultations over comments supporting Correa.
The U.S.
found a compliant Ecuador, eager to please to secure a commercial
agreement coveted by Ecuador’s business class.
“We
will work to eliminate any impediment with the aim of holding a
bilateral dialogue on commerce and investments by the end of 2018,”
Moreno told Pence and the nation.
He has
already worked on two fronts: economic reforms and bilateral
cooperation in security matters while aiding the dismantling of the
Union of South American Nations (Unasur).
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