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"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange steps out on the balcony of the Ecuadoran Embassy to address the media in London in February. (Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images) Ecuador treated Julian Assange like a trophy in 2012 when it opened the doors of its London embassy to the WikiLeaks founder, sheltering him from extradition to\u00A0Sweden over rape\u00A0allegations\u00A0and, possibly,\u00A0to the United States. Rafael Correa, Ecuador\u2019s leftist president, seemed to bask in Assange\u2019s bad-boy glow, which gave the small South American nation a big role in a global drama. Protecting the WikiLeaks editor also gave Correa a way to poke Washington in the eye [&amp;hellip;]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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