Latin America The former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa, sentenced to eight years in prison for corruption
Ecuador The Court of Justice of Ecuador demands that Interpol capture the fugitive Rafael Correa
Former Latin American presidents are in trouble again.
The National Court of Justice (CNJ) has initiated the extradition process against
Rafael Correa
, who is sentenced to eight years in prison for corruption.
The former president, who currently lives in Belgium
, is a fugitive from Ecuadorian justice after a conviction ratified by the CNJ's own criminal chamber.
Iván Saquicela, president of the Court, signed the request this Friday, the same day that the Honduran authorities
extradited former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the United States
, who is heavily accused of drug trafficking.
The trial against
Correa, former television star of 'Russia Today' (RT) and one of the spearheads of the Kremlin's disinformation
on the continent, is dotted with obstacles.
The main one has been known this Saturday, when the defense lawyer of the revolutionary leader has revealed that his defense has, for a few days, with
political asylum granted by the Belgian government
.
The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry has no official confirmation of this decision.
"This scoundrel (Saquicela) never tires of making a fool of himself. Remember that he was one of the judges who prevented me from being a candidate and made Lasso president," Correa reacted through his social networks.
It is not, far from it, the only two former regional leaders who face Justice.
In
Peru
, the trial against
Ollanta Humala
will continue next week with new hearings in which it will be
determined whether the former president of the Andean country is guilty of laundering assets
in his electoral campaigns with money from the government of Hugo Chávez and the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
Also
Alberto Fujimori
, imprisoned for 15 years, faces the tug-of-war between different institutions after his pardon was decreed, and later seeing him paralyzed.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the State to "refrain from implementing" the release of the inmate
, sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of 25 people during the fight against Sendero Luminoso.
In the US,
Alejandro Toledo awaits the judicial decision on his extradition
, requested by the Peruvian authorities.
Also splashed by Odebrecht, an accusation from the Prosecutor's Office weighs on Toledo, which requests 16 years in prison against him.
The impact of the entire ritual experienced yesterday in Honduras with the extradition of Hernández, whose brother is already sentenced in the US, traveled throughout Central America.
The one who was the most powerful man in the country appears today before the Court of New York.
The main culprit that the list of former leaders with problems with the Justice is so extensive is corruption.
Thus, the former Salvadoran presidents
Mauricio Funes and Salvador Sánchez Cerén have found refuge in Managua, thanks to the Sandinista caudillo Daniel Ortega
.
Both are fleeing accusations of corruption.
The government has granted Nicaraguan nationality to Sánchez Cerén and a good part of his family.
Both former presidents are requested by the courts of their country.
In Guatemala, on
Jimmy Morales
, who left power two years ago, weighs a request from the judges to face the Justice.
At least fifteen prosecutors have been forced to leave their country in the face of harassment by the authorities.
Previously, former president
Alfonso Portillo
served a sentence in the US for money laundering and
Álvaro Colom
was released on bail.
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