Ecuador: Clinton Woos a Leftist President - NYTimes.com

NYTimes.com, by Marc Landler, Quito, 08/06/2010, extracto/excerpt.-

Venturing into one of Latin America’s less friendly capitals, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared on Tuesday that the Obama administration was intent on having better relationships in this region, even with leftist governments like Ecuador’s, which became stridently anti-American during the Bush administration.

“I don’t know any two countries that agree on everything,” Mrs. Clinton said after more than two hours of meetings and lunch with President Rafael Correa. “From our perspective, we have reached out and feel very much as though we are forging a new set of relationships.”