In a move obviously designed to boost his popularity ahead of April elections, Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa ordered the expulsion of U.S. diplomat Armando Astorga, accusing him of trying to dictate the appointment of Ecuadorian anti-narcotics personnel. Correa said the U.S. customs attache was "insolent and foolish" and had treated Ecuador like a colony.
The problem is, Astorga's appointment had expired with the Bush administration and he had already left the country three weeks earlier. By the way-- the headline up top is no joke. Ecuador had over fifty different heads of state in the last century, and has had a half-dozen different presidents in the last ten years alone.
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