Ecuador The indigenous people break with Guillermo Lasso and "radicalize" their struggle
New diplomatic earthquake in
Latin America.
The government of conservative
Guillermo Lasso
has declared
the
Argentine ambassador in
Quito, Gabriel Fuks, persona non grata,
after the surprising flight to
Caracas
of former minister
María Duarte,
who was taking refuge in the Argentine diplomatic legation in
Ecuador.
"Mutual trust and good faith that must prevail in the relationship between states have been violated," highlighted the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry after denouncing that Duarte, a close collaborator of former President Rafael Correa, has staged "a new contempt for the
decisions
of Ecuadorian justice.
Duarte escaped last weekend from what
was her refuge for almost three years,
after being
sentenced to eight years in prison for bribery
for the famous
Bribery Case,
the same as Correa.
The judges considered the illegal financing plot of the government movement, which included contributions from companies never declared, proven.
Faced with government irritation, Argentine diplomats washed their hands of it and argued that the former Minister of
Public Works and Economic and Social Inclusion
had disappeared in the midst of the usual tasks of the legation.
According to the Andean country's Foreign Ministry, Fuks has refused to hand over the security videos from the Embassy, with which she intended to find out the circumstances of the "escape", as it is now called in Ecuador.
Last December, President
Alberto Fernández
decided to grant Duarte
asylum status,
but the Quito government refused to grant her the necessary safe-conduct to travel to
Buenos Aires.
"I decided to leave the embassy because by denying me the safe-conduct that corresponded to me as a political refugee,
the Ecuadorian government made me its political hostage.
I had to leave at risk, but I exercised the right that assisted me," Duarte defended himself through his networks social.
The former minister of the
Citizen Revolution
has chosen Caracas as her new refuge since Chavismo is a close ally of her leader.
Correa, who became one of
Vladimir Putin's television stars, also serves as one of
Nicolás Maduro
's top advisers .
The fled leader appeared on Tuesday at the Argentine legation in
Venezuela,
where she was attended by her ambassador,
Óscar Laborde,
to whom she did not explain how she managed to flee her country, but to whom she informed that at the moment she does not plan to travel to Buenos Aires.
"It's not long now," announced Correa himself, also a fugitive from Ecuadorian justice, who described Duarte as a "patriotic and honest woman."
Correísmo seeks the removal of President Lasso through impeachment in the
National Assembly,
for which it has the support of the Social Christians, Lasso's former associates;
the dissidents of the
Democratic Left
and the radicals of the
Pachakutik indigenous party.
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