Things are not going well for NSA leaker Edward Snowden today. Hooking up with Wikileaks and Julian Assange probably wasn’t the best idea: Ecuador Cools on Edward Snowden Asylum as Assange Frustration Grows.

The plan to spirit the surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden to sanctuary in Latin America appears to be unravelling amid tension between Ecuador’s government and Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.

President Rafael Correa halted an effort to help Snowden leave Russia amid concern Assange was usurping the role of the Ecuadoran government, according to leaked diplomatic correspondence published on Friday.

Amid signs Quito was cooling with Snowden and irritated with Assange, Correa declared invalid a temporary travel document which could have helped extract Snowden from his reported location in Moscow.

Correa declared that the safe conduct pass issued by Ecuador’s London consul - in collaboration with Assange - was unauthorised, after other Ecuadorean diplomats privately said the WikiLeaks founder could be perceived as “running the show”.

In other Ecuadorian news, the Correa government is acting to suppress information about Ecuador’s domestic spying: Under Pressure, Scribd Yanks Ecuadorian Spy Documents.