Diplomatic shift could end Assange's year of asylum

16 June 2013 Last updated at 19:35 ET
By Irene Caselli BBC News, Quito

... Mr Correa spoke disparagingly of Wikileaks, saying it had "committed an error by breaking the laws of the United States and leaking this type of information."

But things changed in 2011, when the Ecuadorean government reached an agreement with Mr Assange to declassify all the cables from the US Embassy in Quito.

Wikileaks had previously released the cables through El Comercio and El Universo, two opposition newspapers which Mr Correa thought were using them to further their own anti-government agenda.

Sources told BBC News that Fidel Narvaez, Ecuador's consul to London, was the mastermind behind the Wikileaks-Ecuador episode ...

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