If elected, Mr Lasso would seek membership for Ecuador of
the Pacific Alliance, a trade bloc of free-market Latin American countries.
This would mean leaving the Venezuela-led Alba bloc. Another change would be to
reverse Mr Correa’s position and adopt a tough stance against Mr Maduro’s
regime, claiming Venezuela has become “a dictatorship of a single party”. WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange would also be evicted from Ecuador’s embassy in London,
where he been since 2012. Mr Correa’s critics say he has mortgaged Ecuador to
China, having borrowed more than $17bn since 2010, according to the China-Latin
America Finance Database. Mr Lasso said: “With China we have to broaden the
relationship, moving from debt to trade.” More…
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