Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso announced an authorization that allowed civilians to carry and use firearms as crime rates continue to surge across the country. According to a Reuters report, crime has reached a point where it has become difficult to tame. The Lasso government believes that arming lawful individuals will help them fight this surging crime wave. As he announced this policy, Lasso... 

Julian Assange has “cordially” invited the losing presidential candidate to “leave Ecuador within 30 days” using similar language as Guillermo Lasso, who promised to expel the WikiLeaks founder from the Ecuadorean embassy in London should he win. In the run-up to Ecuador’s presidential elections, conservative candidate Lasso promised that he “will cordially ask Senor Assange to leave”...