we continue our conversation with ecuador's foreign minister ricardo patiÑo.erviewed him monday at the permanent mission of ecuador to the united nations. we discussed the united nations general simply meeting and why ecuadorian president correa isn't attending, as well as the plight of wikileaks founder julian assange who has spent more than 450 days in the ecuadorian embassy in london. we also talked about the health of cuba's revolutionary leader fidel castro in the legacy of venezuelan president hugo chavez. first, i asked the foreign minister why ecuador recently dropped a plan to preserve large areas of the amazon rain forest from oil drilling by having wealthy countries pay them not to drill. president correa said the plan to say parts of the yes in the national park and not attracted sufficient funding. unesco has said it is a world biosphere reserve because it contains 100,000 species of animals, many of which are not found anywhere else in the world. ,nvironmentalists vandana shiva naomi klein, james hansen and others recently wrote an open letter to

correa urging fellow south american leaders to quote take action the course foreign minister ricardo patino sat down with r t to talk about how president obama has handled the n.s.a. spying scandal and the sequel bhogle now in the gulf yet he hasn't apologized to anyone not even his so-called friends or his so-called enemy it looks as if his friends aren't really his friends in fact his friends are so trustworthy that he has to spy on them i think brazilian president dilma rousseff was very brave in her recent decision but i was very happy to hear she would suspend her trip to the united states out of dignity it's impossible that someone can spy on me and then turn around and invite me to come visit them it's disrespectful not only is it disrespectful but it's a violation of international laws the very same laws that protect international communities. ultimately though the white house wasn't interested in addressing the n.s.a. controversy is nearly forty five minute speech today before the u.n. president obama didn't mention the n.s.a. one time. but despite this silence the white house unde

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