Consul who issued the safe pass will be punished
President, Rafael Correa, announced that he will punish his consul in London for having delivered a refugee pass to American fugitive Edward Snowden, without government authorization.
“That consul exceeded his functions, he will have the respective sanction,” said Correa, and reiterated that the document was issued “without any authority and has no validity.”
The president added that, apparently, the consul Fidel Narvaez issued the document in his “desperation” before a possible capture of the former worker of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States who sought political asylum in Ecuador. “Perhaps Mr. Snowden was to be captured, it has been done without authorization and without knowledge of the Ecuadorian government,” he said.