The United States announced this Wednesday that it prohibited the former president of Ecuador from entering the country Rafael Correa (2007-2017) and the former vice president Jorge Glaswhom he accuses of being involved in corruption cases.
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State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement that Correa and Glas “are not eligible to enter the United States due to their involvement in significant acts of corruption during their tenure.”
According to the Joe Biden Administration, The former Ecuadorian president and his ‘number two’ abused their public positions “by accepting bribes in exchange for granting favorable government contracts”.
Miller expressed in the statement the United States’ support for all Ecuadorians who are “committed to increasing government transparency and holding corrupt public officials accountable.”
Correa, who governed from 2007 to 2017 as one of the leaders of the Latin American left, has resided since the end of his mandate in Belgium, which granted him political asylum in 2022, which has allowed him to avoid prison in Ecuador.
Regarding the former president, who is still very present in the political life of his country through social networks, it weighs a sentence of eight years in prison and disqualification for the ‘Bribes 2012-2016’ case.
Glas, who was one of the strong men of the Correa Government, was arrested on April 5 during the attack by Ecuadorian security forces on the Mexican embassy in Quito, where he had requested asylum.
Glas was then subject to an arrest warrant and preventive detention in the case of the reconstruction works after the strong earthquake of 2016.where he is accused of alleged embezzlement (embezzlement of public funds), although both he and Correa declare themselves victims of political persecution.
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