{"id":11974,"date":"2019-12-10T02:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/in-ecuador-no-one-can-act-outside-the-law"},"modified":"2019-12-10T02:41:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:41:36","slug":"in-ecuador-no-one-can-act-outside-the-law-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11974","title":{"rendered":"In Ecuador, no one can act outside the law | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a report that a Hindu guru had a established his own island off the coast of Ecuador, <strong>Ambassador Jaime Marchan Romero <\/strong>clarifies that no individual would ever be allowed to annex off land from a sovereign state<\/p>\n<p>With regard to your report on the alleged establishment of an island nation off the coast of my country by an Indian national known as Nithyananda (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/05\/fugitive-indian-guru-establishes-island-nation-off-ecuador\" title=\"\">Hindu guru on the run sets up own island nation<\/a>, 6 December), this embassy wishes to clarify that it is absolutely false that Nithyananda or any of his associates have or could ever have established in Ecuador a so-called \u201ccosmic republic\u201d for their followers and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador is a sovereign and independent republic and not a <em>res nullius <\/em>(nobody\u2019s land) where any national or foreign adventurer can act outside the law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/in-ecuador-no-one-can-act-outside-the-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a report that a Hindu guru had a established his own island off the coast of Ecuador, Ambassador Jaime Marchan Romero clarifies that no individual would ever be allowed to annex off land from a sovereign stateWith regard to your report o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,990,516,62,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-ecuador","category-hinduism","category-india","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11975,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions\/11975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}