Weekly Report - 08 November 2018 (WR-18-44)

Ecuador’s longest serving president will have to go in the dock. On 7 November the country’s top court ruled that former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) must stand trial for allegedly masterminding the botched kidnapping of a former opposition legislator in 2012. A day earlier Correa’s vice president Jorge Glas (2013-2017), who was sentenced to six years in prison in October last year as part of the bribery scandal involving the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, was admitted to hospital after a downturn in his health in the midst of a hunger strike. Correa’s supporters argue that the case against Correa and conviction of Glas are a sign of the politicisation of the judiciary under President Lenín Moreno and his determination to discredit Correa and his legacy. Moreno insists that he is merely allowing justice to run its course.

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