What Can Tens of Millions of Dollars Buy Ecuador in the ‘Empire’? – Huffington Post

This inordinate amount of money being spent on typical PR services, coupled by the fact that MCSquared is run by several Ecuadoreans in the U.S. with strong ties to Correa’s regime — is a cause for concern. Not only because Rafael Correa is just as anti-U.S. and authoritarian as the late Hugo Chávez, but also because Ecuador has become a haven for money-laundering and organized crime. Read more >>