U.S. hits former Ecuador leaders with visa bans over corruption

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Source: LA Times

The Biden administration on Wednesday imposed visa bans on former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, his vice president and their immediate families for corruption.

The State Department announced that Correa and his onetime deputy Jorge Glas would no longer be eligible to enter the United States. The ban also applies to their spouses and children.

Correa served as Ecuador’s president from 2007 until 2017, adopting political positions often at odds with U.S. policies and notably opening Ecuador’s embassy in London to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange while he was still wanted by the United States.

Correa was convicted in absentia on corruption charges in Ecuador in 2020 and sentenced to eight years in prison. He has lived in exile in Belgium since 2017.

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-10-09/us-hits-former-ecuador-leaders-with-visa-bans-over-corruption

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1. We do not like Assange

So we do not like you Correa. So we will call you "corrupt" and not let you come into our country where there is no corruption.
Petty!

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2. Ecuador is suffering daily extended power outages countrywide

A major contributor to the situation are problems with the Coca Codo dam, a Chinese project awarded by Correa and built without honest professional oversight, which has since been exposed to have serious construction defects that has reduced its ability to generate power.

Correa and his vice president have been found guilty in Ecuadorean courts of accepting bribes to award such infrastructure contracts to shady contractors.

This is not about Assange. It's about Correa being a crook.