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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - President Rafael Correa urged Washington to extend a package of trade benefits tied to counter-drug cooperation during talks Wednesday with the U.S. State Department's No. 2 official.
Correa and visiting Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte met at the presidential palace as some 50 demonstrators outside protes1102ted the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, some wearing black plastic bags over their heads and shouting: "Assassin, go home!"
Correa pushed for an extension of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act, which expires next month.
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