In a statement, the Ecuadorean embassy said: "This afternoon Mr Julian Assange arrived at the Ecuadorean embassy seeking political asylum from the Ecuadorean government.
As word spread through Cuba that the gates of the embassy were open and unguarded, hundreds, and later thousands, of people flocked to the embassy seeking asylum.
On Jan . 6 , 1971it sent a cable to Washington saying a prominent Mexican Army colonel, Daz Escobar, had come to the embassy seeking training for a group of young army officers and university students.
One struggling German firm even approached the American embassy seeking "Yes, We Can" buttons to give out to its demoralised workers.In the circumstances the last thing any government in Europe will want is to be seen to displease the new American president.
Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange is in Ecuador's London embassy, seeking political asylum.
Most of the Cubans the Castro government agreed to take back came to the United States when Jiménez did, in 1980, when thousands of people stormed the Peruvian embassy seeking asylum.
Last January, Sharif Mobley, an American citizen living in Yemen, was abducted on the streets of the Yemeni capital of Sana'a in January 2009, just two days after he'd gone to the U.S. embassy seeking a passport for his new baby so the family could return to the United States.
Some of the most desperate broke into embassies, seeking political asylum, or even hijacked boats to Florida, where they were welcomed, not prosecuted -- which infuriated Mr. Castro.
The talk of Buenos Aires's smoke-filled cafes these days is about how Dr. Favaloro's death is just one more symptom of a country in which a deep two-year recession has ravaged the middle class, forcing the best and brightest to line up at the American, Spanish and Brazilian embassies seeking visas letting them find work elsewhere.
In Saigon, embassy officials sought guidance.
