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...President Barack Obama and his counterparts in the western hemisphere are serious about improving the dysfunctional dance known as U.S.-Latin American relations, they need only look at what transpired in Ecuador this weekend. President Rafael Correa rather petulantly expelled a U.S. diplomat on Saturday. He did so because the diplomat rather high-handedly sent Correa's national police commander a letter saying the U.S. was pulling $340,000 in aid to Ecuador's anti-drug cops, because Correa decided last year not to let Washington have a veto over who runs that force and even who works...
...obliging military strongmen or feckless oligarchs that used to run Ecuador, and that his anti-American agenda has been pretty clear since he won the presidency in 2006. He recently decided not to renew the U.S. lease at Ecuador's Manta air base (although, ironically, he said Saturday he would grant U.S. planes limited use of the base at Quito's discretion). Last year he defaulted on some $3 billion of Ecuador's $10 billion foreign debt, saying the loans had been contracted "immorally and illegitimately" a generation ago when the nation was run by dictators...
...last month, Astorga sent his letter to National Police Commander Jaime Hurtado - informing the top cop not only that the U.S. was terminating the aid but that the force would have to return all furniture, cars and equipment donated by the U.S. in the past. To which Correa on Saturday replied, "Seńor Astorga, keep your dirty money, we don't need it." He's also ordered Hurtado to return the equipment: "Let them keep their things. Ecuador doesn't need charity...
...Crimson came into the match with momentum, having defeated No. 8 Stanford, 8-1, on Jan. 23. The team can only revel in its victory for two days before it continues its brutal stretch of scheduling. Harvard hits the road this weekend to take on No. 2 Penn on Saturday afternoon and No. 1 Princeton on Sunday. The team then returns to Cambridge for its home finale against No. 5 Yale next Wednesday.The Crimson is 2-6 against the three collectively over the past two seasons, but will seek to use the momentum generated by its victory over Trinity...
...lieu of television, he knows how to hold an audience. Even while fielding serious questions, he managed to draw laughter from the crowd.Schrader both wrote and directed “Light Sleeper” and “Blue Collar,” shown at the HFA on Saturday night. When asked about his transition to directing, he said that screenwriting was too intermediary. “I didn’t feel I was a writer,” he said. “I didn’t feel like I was an author, an artist. I felt...