The Minister of Labor of Ecuador, Ivonne Nunezdenounced the former president this Thursday in his personal capacity for treason. Rafael Correa (2007-2017) for pointing out that the assault on Mexico’s embassy to arrest his former vice president Jorge Glas could constitute grounds for declaring war.
The complaint, to which EFE has had access, requests the initiation of investigations against Correa for having speculated in various interviews about the reprisals that a Government could take that sees one of its embassies invaded, as happened with the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in Quito. after he had granted asylum to Glas.
As an urgent act, it also demands that Correa’s accounts on social networks be suspended. X y Facebookwhere he is very active.
In his public interventions, the former president has requested international pressure against the president’s government. Daniel Noboa considering that the arrest of Glas, who had an arrest warrant for his return to prison, is “a kidnapping” because it occurred when he already had asylum status.
Correa has maintained that what happened at the Mexican Embassy is a ‘casus belli’ (cause of war) and indicated that fortunately the Government of the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador it would not go to that extreme as it could have been if it were the United States.
“Mexico, the second Latin American economy, could easily block the port of Guayaquil, where 80% of international trade (from Ecuador) enters and leaves and makes us bankrupt in two months”Correa said in the interview cited by the minister in her complaint.
For Núñez, this “creates a situation of panic among the Ecuadorian population, which, regardless of whether it is civilian or military, is now fearful of a possible war and repercussions in the economic sphere, through international sanctions.”
«The demonstrations about a war, inciting and implying the closure of the port of Guayaquil, promoting any way for Mexico to repress Ecuador, and other expressions of the accused, must be excluded from the protection of the right to freedom of expression and punished. “as what they are, crimes against public order”he assured.
And even the head of the Labor portfolio pointed out that the American Convention on Human Rights It contemplates that freedom of expression has limits such as “the protection of national security, public order or public health or morals.”
Correa responds
Upon learning of this complaint, Correa charged against the Government: “What hands are we in! “Scoundrels!” wrote on his profile on the social network an alleged use of Justice to carry out political persecutions), like Glas.
Regarding the request that their social networks be suspended, the former ruler noted that “it seems like a joke, but it is true” and “it confirms the state of barbarism that we have experienced for seven years.”
The forceful police invasion of the Mexican Embassy led the Mexican Government to break relations with Ecuador and denounce it to the International Court of Justice in The Hague for considering international law and its sovereignty violated.
For the Noboa Government, Glas was prevented from receiving asylum because he was accused of alleged embezzlement (embezzlement) in the case of the reconstruction of Manabí, the province most affected by the strong earthquake registered in Ecuador in 2016.
He also had to return to prison to finish serving an eight-year prison sentence, the result of two convictions for bribery in the case. Bribes, where Correa was also sentenced; and for illicit association in the case Odebrechtof which he had already purged about five years between 2017 and 2022.
Glas, who was Correa’s vice president and at the beginning of Correa’s presidential term Lenin Moreno (2017-2021), he had been released from prison thanks to a controversial judicial resolution that granted his freedom in a precautionary manner while waiting for him to receive the penitentiary benefit of ‘pre-freedom’, which Justice did not grant him. The judge who benefited Glas, Emerson Curipallo, is currently investigated by the Ecuadorian Justice because it is suspected that he received bribes from drug trafficking. EFE (I)
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