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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.
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.
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]
Shortly after the National Assembly was dissolved, Villavicencio announced his candidacy for president of Ecuador in the 2023 election. [20] He focused on the growing corruption, violence in the country, and environmental protection. [22] [23] During his campaign, he called Ecuador a "narco state" due to the rise in gang-related violence. [22]
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 ...
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.
President Donald Trump dismissed David Huitema from his role as director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) on Monday. Huitema was nominated by former President Joe Biden and was sworn ...
Satirical banner (in Catalan) at a rally, parodying the President brand of cheese spread with the tagline a president easy to spread (bribe).. The Gürtel case was a major political corruption scandal in Spain that implicated hundreds of officers of the People's Party (PP), Spain's major conservative party, some of whom were subsequently forced to resign or were suspended.