Ecuador - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Ecuador Index / Locations Transcripts Jessica Sanchez ...the news. We were in Mexico. We were in Ecuador . We were everywhere. It felt good, bu... Arturo Valenzuela ...there was a really serious situation in Ecuador , where there was a tremendous amoun... ...Monetary Fund] had been down to Ecuador . They were really in serious debt... ...looked like there was a coup coming in Ecuador . And there had been another quasi-cou... ...the general that it was critical that Ecuador adhere to the constitutional process... ...forced resignation of the president of Ecuador and support for Colombia, whos... ...to rile the testy relationship with Ecuador , and so on and so forth. There wer... ...common objective. That's what we did in Ecuador . That's what we tried to do i... ...Chávez and President Correa of Ecuador . I happened to be holding a pres... ...of Venezuela and the president of Ecuador should attend his successor'... ...and called the foreign minister of Ecuador . And I said, “Listen, are you going t... ...very, very hard for him. In the case of Ecuador , I was, again—I was in Costa Rica whe... ...got a call from the foreign minister of Ecuador , who said, “Look, we're going to thro... ...of environmental issues—and then with Ecuador as well. And I did a trip myself wit... ...I did a trip myself with Todd Stern to Ecuador . But, I think I may have mentioned i... ...discussion, the secretary did travel to Ecuador as well. And it was to try to see ho... Show more... Roberta Jacobson ...meant that relationships with Bolivia, Ecuador , and Venezuela, in addition to th... ...for an OAS General Assembly, once to Ecuador , where the US was being booed. At th... ...seemingly able to make any progress. Ecuador was a weak link in the region on bot... ...free at that point. So if you got to Ecuador , you could get to anywhere else. An... ...traveling to the region in places like Ecuador , in—I don't know if you were i... ...Venezuela for a moment—but certainly in Ecuador and Bolivia, you have countries i... ...the racial disparity is very strong. In Ecuador , it's overlayed by a geographic one... ...had crappy governments. Bolivia and Ecuador are two of the governments in th... ...not personal vehicles. And Bolivia and Ecuador , along with Venezuela under [Hugo... ...and the particular relationship with Ecuador that Snowden had. So I think—those wer... ...discussed the ALBA countries, namely Ecuador and Venezuela. Before we leave tha... ...became a Latin America story because of Ecuador 's role in promoting, offering asylum... ...in so many ways, the relationship with Ecuador was difficult to begin with. [Rafael... ...Julian Assange going to actually go via Ecuador to Cuba? This was even before h... ...respectful partners. So it really put Ecuador , Venezuela, Bolivia kind of o... ...and these bizarre statements. I went to Ecuador once, as one of the more senior peopl... ...You know, gives me a Panama hat made in Ecuador . He says we can work things out. An... ...successful—again, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador —it was not for want of trying, and i... Show more... Bernie Aronson ...Salvador did, Nicaragua did, Uruguay— Ecuador , at this time. Ecuador, Argentina... ...did, Uruguay— Ecuador, at this time. Ecuador , Argentina. And the US had relation... Ricardo Zúniga ...region, where they had many allies in Ecuador , Argentina, Brazil to some extent... Anne Patterson ...also where I started off, in Guayaquil, Ecuador , which was quite a place forty-fiv... ...America. I studied abroad in Quito, Ecuador , for a semester. This would have bee... Ben Rhodes ...was—where Obama and Rafael Correa from Ecuador got into it, and Obama—basically, h... Felice Gorordo ...with him. I studied abroad in Quito, Ecuador , in 2002, and he was all the rag... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Labor Labor go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere go to the Financial Crisis and the Economy Financial Crisis and the Economy go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns