President of Ecuador Rafael Correa extended an invitation to journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to discuss documents leaked on his website as they relate to Ecuador and other Latin American countries, according to a statement from the country’s foreign ministry.
In the same Statement, vice chancellor Kintto Lucas offered Assange political asylum “We are open to grant him Ecuadorian residency, without any kind of problem or any kind of conditions.”
The Australian born Assange, will face criminal charges if he sets foot in Australia and was rejected for permanent residency in Sweden in October. Sweden has also expedited an international warrant for Assange’s arrest for alleged rape and molestation, accusations that came out after WikiLeaks released more than 75,000 pages of documents relating to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan in July.
