US expels Ecuador ambassador
The United States yesterday ordered the expulsion of Ecuador's ambassador to Washington in a tit-for-tat move after the US envoy to Quito was told to leave over a leaked diplomatic cable.
Ambassador Luis Gallegos was summoned to the State Department which declared him persona non grata and asked him to leave the United States as soon as possible, a State Department spokesman, Charles Luoma-Overstreet, told AFP.
Ecuador on Tuesday ordered US Ambassador Heather Hodges out of the country in a row over a leaked diplomatic cable.
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