We want our base in U.S. soil as well

Or at least Correa seems to think so.  And why not?  Here's an excerpt from an article in Reuters UK:

NAPLES (Reuters) - Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast. Correa has refused to renew Washington's lease on the Manta air base, set to expire in 2009. U.S. officials say it is vital for counter-narcotics surveillance operations on Pacific drug-running routes.

"We'll renew the base on one condition: that they let us put a base in Miami -- an Ecuadorean base," Correa said in an interview during a trip to Italy. "If there's no problem having foreign soldiers on a country's soil, surely they'll let us have an Ecuadorean base in the United States." The U.S. embassy to Ecuador says on its Web site that anti-narcotics flights from Manta gathered information behind more than 60 percent of illegal drug seizures on the high seas of the Eastern Pacific last year.

Rather interesting idea, if you ask me.  It all goes along the lines of quid pro quo, you know.  You may want your pound of flesh, but you ain't getting a single drop of blood -- it's only fair, isn't it? Come to think of it -- how convenient and self-serving is the last paragraph of my quotation, right?  It almost sounds like it had been written by the masterminds of this occupation.