It is O.K. for the western media,  when corrupt officials in countries like Ecuador sign contracts for mineral exploration for only 2.5 USD/ha tax duties /year in exchange of a permanent resident Visa in the USA. It is acceptable that a corrupt president is selling an army base in Manta/Ecuador for 10 years in exchange of 1 USD. It is O.K. when an Ecuadorian citizen is locked in the US- Avax –starting from Manta- into the toilet, because in the contract was not stipulated where he will be placed. It is O.K. that a US citizen can stop his 4x4 car, get out, and can kill a man who came out of a mall, he goes back to his car and the next morning he is flown out to the USA with an American Airline. (I was on the spot, that day) It is O.K when the 520 km OCP- Pipeline cannot be built by a local government department for 480 Million Dollar, due to western pressure and the best western offer was 850 Million and finally the Pipeline showed up in the books for 1450 Million Dollars. (A rip off with no name, financed by the German WestLB) It`s O.K. too, when from a 20 Billion Dollar credit only 8 Billion reach Ecuador and the rest stays in NY. When a state leader like Correa pinpoints such details, the western press categorizes him as a leftwing communist ruler. The press should not underestimate the common sense of ordinary people!

In response to Esteban:
I don't doubt that there's corruption in South America, it's an ingrained practice wherever poverty reigns. That Correa may well have been aware of these supposed acts of corruption by members of the police, as was claimed by ex-ambassador Hodges, remains to be proven.What we know for a fact is that when Correa took office in 2007, he had to cut U.S. funding of Ecuador's police force."There were whole police units, fully funded by the U.S. embassy, whose officers in command were chosen by the U.S. ambassador and paid by the U.S." the president of Ecuador said.Sufficient reason for the ambassador's expulsion? I would think so!Let's hope that indeed "those times will never come back"!

Do people really not realize that the same thing this RT and Correa's policy of taking over media outlets (TV channels, radio channels and News Papers) simply fall into the same category of biased, agenda-based media? Really? People can't be THAT stupid!It's funny how they don't mention in this report that Wikileaks also exposed that Correa accepted funding from the FARC of Colombia, but Correa denied this and disregarded the Wikileaks repo rt as baseless. Yet when Wikileaks published documents stating that the US Embassador made comments about Correa's cor rupt practices, he found that sufficient to expel her from Ecuador. Interesting!