https://insidecostarica.com/2013/06/28/latin-america-ecuador-breaks-trade-pact-with-us-to-counter-blackmail-over-edward-snowden/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 https://insidecostarica.com/2013/06/28/latin-america-ecuador-breaks-trade-pact-with-us-to-counter-blackmail-over-edward-snowden/#comment-4819 crbob Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:07:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=9271#comment-4819 The U.S. has lost so much in foreign relations by presidents being able to appoint those who contribute the most money to their campaigns to ambassadorships…….most of these people don’t have the foggiest idea what foreign relations are about yet they are the supposed experts in foreign countries…….the U.S. state department has antagonized too many countries over high handed policies such as Menendez threatened as well as the IRS who forces countries to report all U.S. citizens bank accounts under tremendous pressure under the FATCA act…..

]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2013/06/28/latin-america-ecuador-breaks-trade-pact-with-us-to-counter-blackmail-over-edward-snowden/#comment-4814 georgechapogas Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:24:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=9271#comment-4814 Menendez is a creep. 3 cheers for Ecuador on this one. the USA’s foreign policy is in worse shape than a tico bullfight gone bad thanks to the two most incompetent secs of state in history and the most clueless president ever. the USA’s relations with every single nation in the world is worse and considering how bad Bush was that is astounding. this is just more evidence that you need to be careful what you wish for, things get always get a lot worse, and usually do.

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