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President Rafael Correa with Bolivian president Evo Morales. When Rafael Correa took office as president in 2007, he announced a “revolution against corruption.” Only five weeks into his tenure, Correa undermined the Civic Anti-Corruption Commission, formed in 1998, by establishing the National Anticorruption Secretariat, which gave public ...
Correa has called for a renegotiation of Ecuador's $10.2 billion external debt, at 25% of GDP, [4] following the example of Argentine President Néstor Kirchner.In his inaugural address on 15 January, Correa stated his belief that part of Ecuador's external debt is illegitimate, because it was contracted by military regimes. [5]
Correa and French President Francois Hollande, 7 November 2013 Rafael Correa with Pope Francis, 6 July 2015 Correa and President of Argentina Mauricio Macri, 10 December 2015. General elections were held in Ecuador on 17 February 2013 to elect the President, the National Assembly, Provincial Assemblies and members of the Andean Parliament.
RC has lost two straight presidential elections since Correa stepped down. The former president lives in Belgium and has been convicted of corruption and sentenced to prison, something he says is ...
"The president wants to show that despite the short time he has had, he has made gains in security and in fighting corruption," Carpio said. ... a protege of former President Rafael Correa, who is ...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's top court ordered former President Rafael Correa on Wednesday to stand trial for his alleged role in the 2012 botched kidnapping of an opposition lawmaker.
Prior to his political career, Villavicencio was an investigative journalist covering corruption and violence in Ecuador. A critic of former president Rafael Correa, Villavicencio was in exile in Peru after legal issues following his public critiques of the Correa administration. [2]
Mesías Tatamuez, leader of FUT stated that the protests weren't related to taxes and weren't intended to destabilize of the Ecuadorian government as President Correa had stated. [24] The workers' protests involved the sweeping of streets to represent the "cleansing" of corruption from Ecuador and the burning of an Alianza País flag. [24]