I have no idea how others on this site think that something that happened as long ago as March 2019 (the loan being approved) and Assange's arrest MORE THAN A WEEK LATER could be related at all.

It's preposterous. It makes no logical sense.

That a country which has not received money from the IMF for more than a decade receives money and a month later, one of the most notorious fugitives holed up in said country's embassy is arrested.

I cannot fathom why anyone would think these two things that temporally happened MORE THAN A WEEK APART would be related AT ALL.

Shameful.

I'm sure.. Because the IMF backed states didn't consider that, and put a time-delay for the request of ousting...

No relation at all might be the case but a "wink and a nod" exists and has existed. Break the agreement and IMF will bring hell upon you.

So, it's quite possible that US and Ecuador planned this a few months apart to look unrelated. US diplomats aren't shy at all...