So you must give credit to the prior government, not the current one.
(A) Ecuador received a $4.2B loan from the US-dominated IMF, which was approved around the same time Assange was dragged out of the embassy, and
(B) President Moreno was caught up in the INA Papers scandal where many personal photos, messages, and documents were published, and Moreno accused Assange of involvement shortly before evicting Assange.
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[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/11/rafael-corr...
> "“The greatest traitor in Ecuadorian and Latin American history, Lenin Moreno, allowed the British police to enter our embassy in London to arrest Assange,” Mr. Correa tweeted. “Moreno is a corrupt man, but what he has done is a crime that humanity will never forget.”
Change of Government, new person is power was always anti-assange. Government changed, Assange out.
Assange violated the terms of his asylum.
The reality is that Latin American governments often make deceptive and untrue claims to support activities that benefit them.
In this case, Ecuador made several unsubstantiated claims ostensibly designed to humiliate Assange, which fall short of any reasonable attempt to prove that Assange violated the terms of his asylum.
He would have probably been better off pulling a Snowden and disappearing into Hong Kong for a while...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-imf/ecuador-inks-...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ecuador-jilted-assange-as-it-so...
Political asylum is not normally revoked because someone is a bad house guest, and one former embassy employee has gone on the record stating that the new Ecuadorian government did its best to make Assange's life in the embassy living hell, and that he was actually a courteous guest. It is in the interest of the Ecuadorian government to defame Assange and to make excuses for their sudden cooperation with American authorities.
There's video.
Meeting with Manafort about Assange was one of the first things Moreno did when he was in power.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/04/manafort-tried-to-make-deal-...
The world would be a much better place if people would learn to distinguish between “a person with political power said so” and actual evidence.
That is a straight up attack on legitimacy. And legitimacy is one of a few basic political powers. That makes it a big deal. (Others are having an army, ownership of the means of production, etc...)
All that means is the propaganda worked on you.
In contrast, Lenin Moreno (current president of Ecuador) was the political succesor of Rafael Correa (previous president) and was in line with Correa's policies... until after being elected. He then turned around many of Correa's policies and is seen as a traitor by the latter.
This is more as if Hillary had won (ok, I know, not a perfect analogy!) and afterwards tore down everything Obama stood for.
The current government of Ecuador has not only handed him over, however, but has even handed over his personal belongings in the embassy to the US government. So much for protecting him from political persecution!