By Phil Vinter PUBLISHED: 10:05 EST, 23 August 2012 | UPDATED: 11:42 EST, 23 August 2012 Rafael Correa says the UK has no right to criticise Ecuador Ecuador's President Rafael Correa says Britain is not in a position to preach about its decision to offer asylum to Julian Assange when it failed to extradite former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet. Correa has infuriated British officials by offering protection at the Ecuador embassy in London to the Wikileaks founder who is wanted for sex assault and rape allegations in Sweden. The South American nation's socialist leader says he shares the former computer hacker's fears that he could be sent from Sweden to the U.S. to face charges over WikiLeak's publication in 2010 of thousands of secret U.S. cables.
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Chilean dictate for granted right to stay in UK in 2000
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Correa is part of a leftist alliance of Latin American leaders against U.S.
The Ecuadorean government remains angry at a veiled threat by @placeholder to enter its embassy and arrest Assange.