The Ecuadorian associated the Colombian with the leader of a criminal faction in an interview with a Colombian magazine
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrosaid this Sunday (19) that will sue the head of state of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, for slander.
In an interview with Magazine Weeko Ecuadorian said that, upon his inauguration, in May 2025, the Colombian Esteve with members of the leftist Citizen Revolution movement. According to Noboa, the group would have ties with the leader of the Los Choneros factionAdolfo Macías, known as Fito.
Petro stated that it was accompanied by the Ecuadorian army e for your escort from the Colombian public force when he was in the neighboring country.
“Besides them, there are other witnesses to the place where I finished my book. I don’t know if going somewhere in Ecuador implies suspicion of obscure contacts“, argued Petro.
The Colombian president said that Noboa “treated him with disdain” for asking for the freedom of Jorge Glasformer president of Ecuador and convicted for involvement in the Odebrecht case. Petro also announced that will publish “list of extradited Ecuadorians” by him “to different countries and captured in Colombia”.
Disagreements between Petro and Noboa
This is another one of the episodes of dispute between the two representativeswhich plunged Colombia and Ecuador into a trade war. In January, Noboa unilaterally imposed a tariff on Colombian importsalleging lack of control on the common border.
Colombia also responded with taxes and the suspension of energy saleswhile Ecuador progressively raised the tariff from 30% to 50% and, finally, to 100%. The latter will come into effect in May.
The tension in the bilateral relationship also worsened after Petro called Glas a “political prisoner”to whom he granted Colombian nationality.
Noboa rejected the classification which, according to him, attacks the country’s sovereigntyand summoned his ambassador in Bogotá for consultations. Colombia later adopted the same measure.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
