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Correa blamed opposition-party members of the Council for Citizen Participation of not fighting corruption adequately. [9] Correa's older brother Fabricio, an engineer and president of Aplitec SA, is alleged to have received government contracts on which he collected about $700 million and overcharged by about $140 million.
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]
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (Spanish pronunciation: [rafaˈel βiˈsente koˈre.a ðelˈɣaðo]; born 6 April 1963) is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador m 2007 to 2017.
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 ...
A local organizer in Ecuador's Esmeraldas province for the political movement founded by ex-President Rafael Correa, was assassinated on Monday, party leaders said, less than a week after a ...
Over the years, his scathing and meticulously documented corruption accusations – levele. Fernando Villavicencio, the Ecuadorean presidential candidate gunned down in Quito on Wednesday, was no ...
The Citizen Revolution Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Revolución Ciudadana, RC) is a democratic socialist [10] political party in Ecuador formed by supporters of former President Rafael Correa who distanced themselves from Correa's former PAIS Alliance party during the presidency of Lenín Moreno.
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]