For the better part of five years, Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, has been living within the confines of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. In 2012, Assange was fleeing falsified rape charges in Sweden when he was granted political asylum by Ecuador. However, he found himself unable to leave the embassy, as the government of the
Ecuadorian Presidential Hopeful Could Be Assange’s Undoing
Guillermo Lasso, a former banker and Ecuador’s ex-Minister of Economics, is running for president in Ecuador and has promised to end the nation’s long-standing asylum of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange.