Who is Jorge Glas and what is his relationship with Rafael Correa in Ecuador?

QUITO (EFE).— The former vice president of Ecuador Jorge Glas, 54, is an electronic engineer and forged a friendship with former president Rafael Correa Correa since his youth, as part of a group of boy scouts, in the port city of Guayaquil, where they both originate from.

Thus, he was part of the Correa government (2007-2017) from the beginning, as president of the Solidarity Fund (2007-2009), and then as minister of Telecommunications and Information Society (2009-2010) and minister of Sector Coordinators. Strategic (2010-2012).

Then, together with Correa, he formed the electoral binomial of candidates for president and vice president of the ruling Alianza País political formation for the 2013 elections, and after the electoral victory he completed four years in office (2013-2017) and then repeated his victory with Lenín. Moreno in 2017. However, Moreno soon removed Glas from all his functions when complaints and signs of corruption against him began to accumulate, and in September 2017 the vice president entered preventive detention and was removed from office.

Furthermore, at the end of 2023 he was involved in a complaint for alleged intimidation by Soledad Padilla, a former advisor who had provided him with assistance during his time in prison and who, according to the complainant, suffered harassment from Glas for not seeing He supposedly reciprocated her interest in formalizing a relationship and found out that she had a romantic relationship with an assembly member of the Correismo parliamentary group.

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Ecuador Jorge Glas countersued Soledad Padilla for alleged extortion by stating that he had supposedly demanded that she receive $350,000 in exchange for not disseminating the recordings of some of their conversations that finally came to light.