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By Ramiro Carrillo (dpa)
HAVANA TIMES – Rafael Correa baderted today that there was a conspiracy against him in Ecuador and rejected the order of preventive detention issued Tuesday by a judge against him. 39; former president in the case of the kidnapping of a former Ecuadorian deputy.
"Today has been completed one of the biggest abuses against a former president," said Correa in a video that was circulating on their social networks and that says it will not be arrested in Belgium, where he resides, as he is a country that guarantees the rights of people.
The judge who ordered the preventive detention also indicated that he would send a request for capture to Interpol so that he could be extradited. Proponents of Correa, meanwhile, organized a march to Quito for the former president on Thursday afternoon.
In the message broadcast from his home in Brussels, Correa asked his followers not to worry about him. . "Worried for the country, they are destroying it," he said.
The former president added that "justice does not exist in Ecuador" and said that he was living "a very difficult time".
Pre-trial detention against Correa was pronounced Tuesday by the national judge Daniella Camacho, because the former president failed to comply with the precautionary measure to appear before a criminal court in Quito every 15 days to Starting from July 2
Correa is linked to the case of the abduction of former MP Fernando Balda, which took place in Bogotá in 2012, while he was detained by Colombian agents for a few hours, after the intervention of the police. They saw the kidnapping.
The perpetrators were arrested and tried in Colombia and reported that Ecuadorian agents of the National Intelligence Secretariat (Senain), an agency, participated in the kidnapping. Orders of the Presidency of Ecuador
Balda had denounced corruption in the Correa government and Correa was prosecuted for attacking his honor and dignity.
Correa, who ruled between 2007 and 2017 and has become an icon of The Latin American Left has received the support of other leaders of the region such as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Bolivian Evo Morales and L & Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
"I send my solidarity with the hope that justice will finally triumph and our peoples will democratically decide on the future of our countries and the world." "Latin America." A big hug, "said Lula's message, jailed for nearly three months, accused of pbadive bribery and money laundering.
Correa replied: "Comrade Lula: you can imprison our bodies but not our ideals, we will win!"
"First Cristina (Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina) Then Lula (in Brazil) Now Rafael Correa Stop persecution against the true rulers of our America The Bolivarian Revolution is in solidarity with the people of Ecuador and @MashiRafael, "Maduro wrote on his Twitter account
. In the same network, Bolivian President Evo Morales rejected the Ecuadorian court ruling against Correa. "We denounce the politicization of the Ecuadorian justice and the interference of #EEUU with the intention of imprisoning an innocent person.We are with you Fr. Correa Venceremos!"
The government of Ecuador, chaired by Lenin Moreno, rejected the statements of Latin American politicians and warned that they were trying to discredit the country's democratic institutions, according to a statement by the Secretary of Comunicación (Secom).
He also announced that the ambbadadors of Venezuela and Bolivia were summoned to explain the position of their governments "regarding this internal issue of Ecuador". It was also reported that the trip of the new Ecuadorian ambbadador to Venezuela was suspended and that the country's ambbadador to Bolivia was called for consultations.
The communiqué also requires respect for the ongoing judicial work in Ecuador, considering that it is "an internal legal case of the country" and that any questioning goes against the rule of law that governs l & # 39; Ecuador.
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