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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/4030">Ewan Robertson</a></span></div><p>Venezuela and the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA) have backed Ecuador against “threats” from Britain, after Ecuador granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange diplomatic asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London on August 16.</p>
<p>ALBA is an anti-imperialist bloc of eight nations that includes Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia. </p>
<p>Swedish authorities want to extradite Assange from Britain to investigate allegations against him of sexual assault.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51942" target="_blank">read more</a></p>