Ecuador will remove a statue of Néstor Kirchner: "It does not represent the values ​​of our peoples"

The government of Ecuador made the final decision for one of the continental agencies promoted by Chavismo, Kirchnerism and the Workers Party of Brazil. The president of this country, Lenin Moreno, announced that he was withdrawing from the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to request the return of the building housing the General Secretariat located in the suburbs of Quito. He also said that they were going to take out the statue of Néstor Kirchner, located in this area.

"As everyone knows, my intention is that the $ 40 million building that our country delivered as the headquarters of @unasur be transferred to the Ecuadorian Indigenous University and that we remove the statue of Néstor Kirchner. does not represent values of our peoples, "wrote Moreno on his Twitter account.

Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Paraguay suspended their activities in 2018 within the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) in the absence of 39, a secretary general. With the abandonment of Ecuador, the bloc which, in principle, It was composed of 12 nations, was reduced to a group of five: Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The exit of Ecuador implies that the country stops contributing economically to the agency, whose headquarters had been financed and donated by Quito during the government of the leftist President Rafael Correa. "We will stop participating in all the activities of this organization. Do not record an extra cent or a contribution to the organization's budget, "said Moreno, who is fighting a fight with his predecessor.

The Ecuadorian leader said that his country intended to recover the headquarters of the organization, a building whose cost was about 43 million dollars. The official inauguration of the headquarters took place in 2014 and the leaders of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Suriname and Venezuela attended the ceremony.

UNASUR, created under the impetus of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez – who died in 2013 – has been affected by a marked political division of its members. The lack of agreement for the election of a secretary-general has left the block in total inaction since 2017. The last person to occupy the general secretariat was the l & # 39; former Colombian president Ernesto Samper.