Ecuador
judge orders arrest of ex-president Rafael Correa
RT,
3
July, 2014
The
National Court of Justice of Ecuador has ordered the preventive
detention of the country's former president Rafael Correa and
requested that Interpol apprehend him for extradition.
The
request for Correa’s detention was filed by the country’s chief
prosecutor on Tuesday. The prosecution is accusing Correa, who served
as the president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017, of being involved in
the kidnapping of Fernando Balda, a former opposition lawmaker, in
2012 in Colombia - charges that Correa vehemently denies.
ATENCIÓN | Jueza Daniella Camacho acoge el pedido de Fiscalía, ordena la prisión preventiva en contra del expresidente Rafael C. por su presunta participación en los delitos de asociación ilícita y secuestro. Remitirá oficio a Interpol para la captura con fines de extradición.
Balda
himself was charged with orchestrating a foiled coup attempt in 2010.
The charges were filed when the lawmaker was in Colombia, from where
he was eventually deported to Ecuador in 2012 and served a year in
prison for endangering state security.
Correa,
who is living in Belgium with his family, is up in arms over the
court’s ruling, arguing on Twitter that the request to put him in
custody was made without “a single piece of evidence.” He
believes the extradition does not stand a chance at the international
level.
“How
much success will this farce have at the international level? Don't
worry, everything is a matter of time. We will win!” he added.
Fiscal puesto a dedo, vinculación sin ninguna prueba, jueza que se allana al desacato de la Asamblea Nacional, medida cautelar imposible de cumplir, etc.
¿Saben cuánto éxito va a tener esta farsa a nivel internacional?
No se preocupen, todo es cuestión de tiempo.
¡Venceremos!
¿Saben cuánto éxito va a tener esta farsa a nivel internacional?
No se preocupen, todo es cuestión de tiempo.
¡Venceremos!
In
a string of tweets, Correa thanked his followers for the outpour of
support he received after the news on the international warrant for
his extradition broke. “ I thank everyone for their solidarity in
the face of this new and serious abuse of justice and my rights,”
he tweeted, adding that he doesn’t believe Belgium will comply with
the request.
“They
will seek to humiliate us and make us have a hard time, but such a
monstrosity will NEVER prosper in a State of Law like Belgium,” he
wrote.
Agradezco a tod@s sus muestras de solidaridad ante este nuevo y grave atropello a la justicia y mis derechos.
Yo estoy bien. No se preocupen.
Buscarán humillarnos y hacernos pasar un mal rato, pero una monstruosidad así JAMÁS prosperará en un Estado de Derecho como Bélgica.
Yo estoy bien. No se preocupen.
Buscarán humillarnos y hacernos pasar un mal rato, pero una monstruosidad así JAMÁS prosperará en un Estado de Derecho como Bélgica.
One
of the milestones of Correa’s foreign policy became granting asylum
to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2012, who has since been holed
up in the country’s embassy in London’s Knightsbridge. The move
drew anger from the UK and the US, who sought the whistleblower’s
arrest.
Correa
was replaced in power by his former ally Lenin Moreno in April last
year, after a close-call election. At the time, Correa welcomed
Moreno’s victory as a “triumph of revolution.”
However,
the two have since fallen out, with Correa branding Moreno a
“traitor” and “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” after the latter
proposed a constitutional referendum to limit the number of
presidential terms, thus barring Correa from seeking re-election in
2021. The referendum held on February 4 ended in a victory for the
Moreno government, with the majority of Ecuadorians voting to
introduce the changes.
Moreno
has signaled there will be a U-turn in the South American country’s
foreign policy from Correa’s anti-American posture after he signed
a security agreement with the US in April of this year.
The
new president also took a tougher stance on Assange, calling him
“more than a nuisance” and a “hacker,” which is more in line
with the rhetoric coming from Washington. Although Moreno agreed to
extend Assange’s asylum, the WikiLeaks founder’s Internet access
and visitor rights were restricted over what the Ecuadorian
government sees as his controversial online political activity.
Since
February, Correa has been a host of his own show ‘A Conversation
with Correa’ on RT Spanish, where he has interviewed prominent
guests from Latin American political circles and beyond. Among those
who sat down with the ex-president on the show were Brazilian
ex-Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, former
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, Argentina’s ex-leader Cristina
Kirchner, American philosopher Noam Chomsky and others
From
late-May
Sergio
de la Peña arrived to Ecuador to consolidate a security cooperation
agreement that could bring back U.S. military bases to the Latin
American country.
U.S.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Sergio de la Peña arrived to
Ecuador for a two-day visit aimed at strengthening bilateral
relations and security cooperation between the two countries, as
informed by the U.S. Embassy in Quito
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