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Uruguay's President Jose Mujica, right, looks on Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, second left, and Cuba's President Raul Castro talk during the inauguration ceremony of the Latin American and Caribbean States Community, CELAC, summit in...

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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa speaks to the international press in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011.

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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa holds up a copy of the opposition newspaper El Universo during a meeting with international press at the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011.

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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa gestures during a press conference, at the end of a special meeting of the Andean Presidential Council of the Community of Andean Nations (CAN) at Narino Presidential Palace in Bogota, on November 8, 2011. The summit was convened before the Ecuadorean...

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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (C) speaks next to his counterparts of Bolivia, Evo Morales and Ecuador, Rafael Correa (R) during a press conference, at the end of a special meeting of the Andean Presidential Council of the Community of Andean Nations (CAN) at Narino...

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Bolivian President, Evo Morales (L), ahkes hands with his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, as Ecuadorean President, Rafael Correa (2-L) shakes hadns with his Peruvian counterpart, Ollanta Humala, at the end of a special meeting of the Andean Presidential Council of the...

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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, center, talks to the media as Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, and Peru's President Ollanta Humala, listen during a press conference after a presidential summit by the Andean Community of Nations in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday Nov. 8, 2011.

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Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, center, talks as Ecuador's Presidet Rafael Correa, right, and Bolivia's President Evo Morales listen during a press conference after a meeting by the Andean Community of Nations in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday Nov. 8, 2011.

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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa reviews the honor guard during his welcoming ceremony at Narino Presidential Palace in Bogota, on November 8, 2011. Correa arrives to attend a special meeting of the Andean Presidential Council of the Community of Andean Nations (CAN) with their...

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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (R) stands beside his Ecuadorean counterpart Rafael Correa during the welcoming ceremony at Narino Presidential Palace in Bogota, on November 8, 2011. Correa attends a special meeting of the Andean Presidential Council of the Community of Andean...

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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, shakes hands with Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos upon his arrival for an Andean Community of Nations meeting at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday Nov. 8, 2011. Tuesday Nov. 8, 2011. Presidents of Colombia, Ecuador,...

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Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro (R) takes a corn dish along a street in Quito after attending a ceremony presided over by Ecuador's President Rafael Correa to commemorate the 100th death anniversary of General Eloy Alfaro, Ecuador's former leader of a liberal revolution, January...

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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa (L) gestures next to Bolivian President Evo Morales (C) and Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero during the family picture of the XXI Iberoamerican Summit at the Conmebol Convention Center in Asuncion on October 29, 2011. Leaders from Latin...

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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa(2L) jokes with Bolivian President Evo Morales(R) while Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos(L) and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez look on after the family picture of the XXI Iberoamerican Summit at the Conmebol Convention Center in...

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Chielan President Sebastian Pinera (R) talks to Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa (L) and Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo after the family picture of the XXI Iberoamerican Summit at the Conmebol Convention Center in Asuncion on October 29, 2011. Leaders from Latin America, Spain and...

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Spain's King Juan Carlos(R) shares a joke with Ecuador's President Rafael Correa(C) and Spain's President of the Government Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero are seen during the family picture of the XXI Iberoamerican Summit at the Conmebol Convention Center in Asuncion on October 29, 2011. ...

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(L to R): Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, Spanish King Juan Carlos , Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo gesture after the family picture of the XXI Iberoamerican Summit at the Conmebol Convention Center in Asuncion on October 29, 2011. Leaders...

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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa speaks to the media after walking out on a speech by World Bank's Vice President for the Latin America and the Caribbean, Pamela Cox, during the Ibero-American Summit in Paraguay October 29, 2011.

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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, center, speaks with Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, second from right, Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, right, and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, left, after the group photo for the XXI Iberoamerican summit in Asuncion, Paraguay,...

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Spain's King Juan Carlos, right, embraces Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, center, as Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, left, looks on as they gather for a group photo at the XXI IberoAmerican summit in Asuncion, Paraguay, Saturday Oct. 29, 2011.

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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, speaks to Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, center, while shaking hands with Spain's King Juan Carlos, right, as the leaders gather for a group photo at the XXI IberoAmerican summit in Asuncion, Paraguay, Saturday Oct. 29, 2011.

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Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, right, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, second right, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, speak as the leaders gather for a group photo at the XXI IberoAmerican summit in Asuncion, Paraguay, Saturday Oct. 29, 2011.

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Ecuadorean newspaper columnist Emilio Palacio (C) walks with his U.S. attorney Sandra Grossman (L) and his Ecuadorian attorney Jorge Alvear as they leave after meeting with officials at the U.S. Immigration Services Asylum Office in Miami, Florida February 8, 2012. Palacio pleaded his...

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Ecuador's National Assembly President Fernando Cordero Cueva (back, L), member of the Judicial Council of Transition Fernando Yavar (C), Ecuador's President Rafael Correa (back 2nd R), Vice President Lenin Moreno Garces (back seated) watch as Judicial Council of Transition President Paulo...

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Supporters of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa gather outside the Alianza Pais Party headquarters to commemorate a year since a revolt by some police officers over spending cuts, an incident that Correa had called a failed attempted coup, in Quito September 30, 2011.