Count of Ecuadorian Correismo officials supported by the AMLO Government

QUITO, Ecuador.— Through its social network account “X”, formerly Twitter, the Ecuadorian open television network Ecuavisa announced the links between the current Mexican Government and former Ecuadorian officials of the government of Rafael Correadenominated “Citizen revolution”.

The relationship between the Government of president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Ecuadorian Correismo is not new.

Mexico has functioned as the center of operations of the Citizen Revolution since 2019 when some of its militants arrived and within months received political asylum.

In April 2019, former Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño fled to Mexico before the preventive detention order was issued against him for the crime of instigation; Six months later that country granted him political asylum.

Jorge Glas is not the first former official to visit the Mexican embassy in Quito either.

After the violent demonstrations in October 2019, legislators Gabriela Rivadeneira, Soledad Buendía, Carlos Buiteri and Luis Molina took refuge in the diplomatic headquarters.

Three months later, in January 2020, the Mexican government granted them political asylum.

This list also includes the president of the Citizen Participation Council, Edwin Jarrín, husband of Soledad Buendía.

The list goes on, the first Correismo official who fled the country due to problems with the justice system was the former superintendent of Information and Communication, Carlos Ochoa, in October 2018, months after his censure and dismissal in the National Assembly.

In January 2019, a judge issued a preventive detention order for falsifying a public document. Mexico granted him a humanitarian refugee card in August of that year.

In October 2018, Sofía Espín, an assembly member of the Citizen Revolution, left the country for Bolivia while the justice system was investigating her for the crime of offering influence peddling.

In November she was removed from office and requested refuge from the Government of Evo Morales but, due to the crisis in that country, she left for Mexico with international protection.

Finally, the Prosecutor’s Office refrained from charging her and the prison order was lifted.

The former Minister of Transportation and Public Works, Walter Solís, sentenced for the Bribery case, has had refugee status in Mexico since May 2021, there is former legislator Viviana Bonilla, also sentenced for bribery in the Bribery case.

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