and Police Chief Hurtado/President Correa...
On February 7, 2009, Correa ordered the expulsion of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement attaché Armando Astorga for allegedly suspending $340,000 in annual aid because Ecuador would not allow the US State Department to veto appointments to the anti-smuggling police. He cited as evidence a letter Astorga allegedly sent (January 8) demanding that the anti-contraband police return all donated equipment. Subsequently, on February 17, Mark Sullivan, the US Embassy's first secretary in the embassy's office of regional affairs was given 48 hours to leave the country because of his "unacceptable meddling." Foreign Minister Fander Falconi said Sullivan, in a meeting with police in early February, questioned a decision by Ecuadorean Police Chief Jaime Hurtado to transfer the head of the Special Investigations Unit to another police post.<20>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_Rafael_Correa(links and footnotes at the wiki article)
Too bad Hurtado seems to be "collateral damage" in this situation. (He just resigned.) Don't know anything about his competence, but he must have courage since he was the one who fought off U.S. vetoing of Ecuadoran appointments to the anti-smugglling ("war on drugs") police.