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Argentine opposition requests explanation from Chancellor Cafiero after Ecuadorian ex-official’s escape

Argentine opposition requests explanation from Chancellor Cafiero after Ecuadorian ex-official's escape
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March 16 |

Opposition parties in Argentina are demanding that Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero give explanations to Congress for the escape of a former Ecuadorian minister convicted of corruption from the embassy in Quito where she was in asylum, which has provoked a diplomatic crisis with Ecuador.

The former minister of the government of former president Rafael Correa requested asylum in the Argentine embassy in Quito in August 2020, but the government of Ecuador denied the safe conduct because it considered that it was not a case of political persecution.

Duarte disappeared on Sunday, March 12 from the Argentine embassy in Quito and reappeared the following day at the Argentine embassy in Caracas, Venezuela.

The senator of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) for Mendoza Alfredo Cornejo said that the fact shows once again the terrible foreign policy of the government of President Alberto Fernandez.

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“It is a new blunder of our foreign policy, our president and our Foreign Ministry have erred in their links with the world and are always entangled with corrupt people who dress up as political prisoners, when in fact they are condemned by judicial systems that live in democracy”, said Cornejo.

According to the senator, the president’s policy is tied “100% to the decisions of (Vice President) Cristina Fernández and makes him make these tremendous mistakes that isolate us from the world”.

Others are also concerned that the episode may affect the ties between the two countries.

“It is very serious everything that happened and damaged diplomatic relations with Ecuador. It is very serious that the Argentine government has given political asylum to a woman convicted of corruption, seeking to cover up these crimes in some way. It is serious that both governments have expelled the diplomats. But we advocate for dialogue to solve this conflict”, expressed the deputy of the PRO, for La Pampa, Martín Maqueyra.

The former Argentine ambassador to the US, China, Brazil and the European Union, Dr. Diego Guelar, expressed concern about the gestures that damage Argentina’s diplomatic tradition.

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“The logic is to think that after two years of asylum, there was complicity, that he did not slip away and his exit was facilitated. It is also an irregular situation that the vice-president of Argentina maintains that the justice system cannot evaluate the responsibilities of political officials. This does not show independence of powers and violates the function of the judiciary”, said Guelar.

On the other hand, the Argentine ambassador in Venezuela, Oscar Laborde, denied that the former official was a refugee in the Embassy in Caracas, and clarified that she only went there for a meeting to find out how the immigration procedures would be in order to be able to live with her son in Buenos Aires.

“I don’t know where she is and there was never any talk of an escape”, declared the diplomat.

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