Ecuador: The time of hope

On April 13, two political models are faced in Ecuador: that of the so -called “Decade won” (2007-2017)represented by Luisa González, and that of the quasi “Lost Decade” (2017-2024) represented by Daniel Noboa and those who have preceded him at that time at the head of the Presidency of the Republic.

The former president’s government, Rafael Correa, between 2007 and 2017 modernized Ecuador and raised all its development indicators to historical maximums. Some examples are the educational indicators of the country, the achievements in health, the infrastructure developed, or the security levels of the country, a true judicial independence and of defense of citizen rights. Said government also promulgated One of the most advanced constitutions in the worldgiving rights to Mother Nature and good living.

However, between 2017 and 2024 the country experienced an unprecedented destruction in the region, which terrifies for its results against the most vulnerable and citizenship in general.

The decline

From 2017 Not only was the entire legacy of the previous decade dilapidated, but there was also a true Decadence in consolidated democratic values And a Cainita Persecution. The arrival of Lenin Moreno To the presidency of the country, an obvious regression to times already forgotten in the country.

Moreno’s only obstinacy was to prevent Rafael Correa from returning to power in Ecuador. To do this, an entire institutional architecture consisting of the Opening of infinite judicial causeswithout any support to suffocate that political movement and its leaders or representatives, mainly Rafael Correa and Jorge Glas, but also others such as Paola Pabón, Virgilio Hernández or indigenous leaders such as Leonidas Iza, among others. A Persecutory Esquema who continued with the presidency of Guillermo Lasso and until today, with Daniel Noboa.

Persecutory plan

In 2018, with the arrival of Lenin Moreno to power, it was articulated through a questionable referendum and popular consultation, the creation of a Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control, but “transitory”. In the presidency of Transitory Council Julio César Trujillo was placed, who appeared resorting in the media stating that his Objective was to end the “Correism”, sending to prison to all those who had been linked to the previous administration.

The Transitory Council He removed from his post and discretionary to multiple authoritiesfor example, of the Judiciary, with the appointment of temporary judges. Among those authorities, the appointment as attorney general of the state of Diana Salazar stands out, a designation that was made against the unquestionable evidence of not having achieved (or far) the best scores for its designation. However, Mrs. Diana Salazar has been and is the key figure in each and every one of the open processes against those leaders. And Lawfare In its pure state it has been empowered in Ecuador from the highest spheres of justice and politics to the last steps, to the detriment of citizens.

The dynamics of this bloody persecution has always been the same. A media outlet launched an accusing news without foundation. The prosecutor, Diana Salazar, opened an investigation. And the Judicial Power as a result of the transitory council proceeded to condemn in any case, with absolute contempt for procedural truth.

Persecution architecture

Faced with this persecution architecture, the very very UN Rapporteur for the Independence of Magistrates and LawyersDiego García Sayán, who referred repeated and forceful urgent calls to Ecuador in which he warned that The Judiciary was colonizing from the Executive Powerwith the fear that a structure of judicial persecution against the opposition was being established.

There were many cases of political persecution, but, among all, it stands out as a case as bribes (2012-2016), which condemned several authorities of the Citizen Revolution, among which the former president, Rafael Correa, and the former vice president, Jorge Glas. With this express judgment He prevented Correa from attending the elections And I know illegally unlinding the citizen revolution. The conviction was based on the testimony of two people who reached agreements with the Prosecutor’s Office and refused to respond to the defenses, and on an accounting notebook with false annotations, written with manipulated dates and without graphochemical expertise. Surprisingly, the sentence was justified alleging, for the first time in the history of criminal law, that Rafael Correa and Jorge Glas exercised a “Psychic influence” on other people to induce crime. This, even if it sounds like a joke, is true.

Again, the UN Rapporteur for the Independence of Magistrates and Lawyers intervened, freeing new urgent calls to Ecuador in relation to this case. As the previous ones fell into broken bag.

The result of that sentence was the expedition of international arrest warrants against Rafael Correa, among others. Interpol rejected them when there were political motivations. In fact, the members of the Citizen Revolution that are outside Ecuador have received protection as asylums, in countries such as Canada, Belgium and Mexico, when they understand these countries that suffer from a political persecution.

Arbitrary judicial processes

It is necessary that these data be known because they demonstrate the political persecution that has been developed in Ecuador. In this sense, the former vice president deserves special reference, Jorge Glaswhich has been suffering a series of arbitrary judicial processes in which it has not arranged for the minimum procedural guarantees that correspond to every citizen.

The most serious case of the case was the Violation of the diplomatic asylum granted by Mexico: President Daniel Noboa ordered the illegal income of the Ecuadorian police to the Mexican embassy in Quito, violating his immunity and kidnapping the former vice president, who was transferred to a maximum security prison. There he has faced inhuman conditions, he tried to commit suicide and his life is in danger. The IACHR expanded this year the precautionary measures, requesting its transfer to a hospital and its output of “La Roca”, but the Ecuadorian government has refused to comply with the resolution.

It is Disregard for internal and international standards is typical of some unworthy rulers of representing Ecuadorian citizens. Ecuador is now a country with a terrible energy crisis that has involved constant and repeated blackouts. A very serious security crisis, being one of the most dangerous countries in the region. An aggravated humanitarian crisis, which is clearly represented with the disappearance and murder of the minors of Guayaquil. An unprecedented constitutional crisis, allowing Daniel Noboa to be a candidate, and at the same time president, while the vice president, Verónica Abad, to assume the presidency, as ordered by law.

In short, On April 13, two models facethe one that represents Daniel Noboa, son of the banana oligarchy that has left a country in ashes, and the model of the “citizen revolution”, through the candidate Luisa González, who seeks to rescue Ecuador from the huge structural crisis in which, irresponsible and unscrupulous politicians have plunged the Ecuadorian people. It is the time of hope.

Judge (1980/2012) and Spanish jurist member of the Latin American Council of Justice and Democracy (CLAJUD).