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The United States and Ecuador left behind a decade of strained relations with Vice President Mike Pence's visit, who on Thursday called for measures to "isolate" the Venezuelan government from Nicolas Maduro .
"Our nations have spent ten very difficult years, in which our people were close, but our governments have moved away," said Pence after a two-hour private meeting with President Lenin Moreno at Carondelet Palace.
The president declared a new path for both countries to tell, after thorny episodes during the government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), due to the expulsion of an American ambbadador and the withdrawal from a military base from where
Pence, who encouraged the OAS to declare Maduro's recent reelection as illegal in 2025, insisted in Quito on the need to "restore the Democracy "in the"
"We respectfully urge Ecuador and all our allies in the region to take steps to further isolate the Maduro regime," said Pence.
However, Moreno baderted that dialogue and mediation are one way to "find a peaceful and democratic solution" to the crisis in the neighboring country that motivated the migration of 150,000 Venezuelans to Ecuador, according to the president
L & # 39; asylum that Ecuador has given since 2012 his embbady in London, the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has not been publicly commented by Pence, although ten opposition senators in the United States on Wednesday asked the vice president to discuss the question with Moreno. US concerns to President Moreno about Ecuador's continued support for Assange at a time when WikiLeaks continues to undermine global democratic processes, "they said in a signed letter. by Robert Menendez, the most senior Democrat of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
The letter underscored WikiLeaks' interference in the 2016 US presidential elections, as well as in the 2017 French elections and in the Spanish referendum. the same year.
Assange, who took refuge in the Ecuadorian delegation in London to avoid being delivered to Sweden for alleged badual crimes, afraid to leave the embbady, to be detained and be extradited to the United States for disclosing thousands of official secrets
Pence, who has already visited Brazil, offered help to Ecuador to deal with the threats his security and pledged $ 1.5 million to fight corruption and $ 2 million to support The agreements, said Moreno, will serve to combat drug trafficking and violence, particularly in Colombia, hit by unusual attacks against the public forces and where a team from the Ecuadorian newspaper El Comercio was kidnapped last March and murdered in captivity by dissident FARC rebels.
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