The man predicted to become Ecuador's next president is unlikely to allow the U.S. to keep the local military base it runs.Rafael Correa, a leftist economist and critic of the US has joked, "We could talk to the United States about renewing the agreement, as long as they let us put an Ecuadorian base in Miami."
The U.S has used the base in Manta as its main anti-drugs post on the Pacific since 1999. The deal expires in 2009.
