Ecuador offers residency to WikiLeaks' Assange
An Ecuadorean government official has invited the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website to live and lecture in the country, days after the site caused an international uproar by releasing additional sensitive US documents.
Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas told local media that Ecuador was attempting to get in touch with WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to invite him to the country, praising his work as an investigator. Ecuador is part of a leftist bloc of governments in South America, including Venezuela and Bolivia, that have been highly critical of US policy in the region. (Reuters)
