Former chief of the Armed Forces reveals situations about the 30-S

The former head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, General Ernesto González, said on January 13 that it was President Rafael Correa himself who ordered his rescue from the hospital of the National Police, on September30, 2010 (30-S), day of the police uprising.

These revelations and others are in his book, Testimony of a Commander (Testimonio de un Comandante, for its Spanish acronym), which will be presented on January 15 at the Association of Generals and Admirals of the Armed Forces.

Gonzalez commented he requested to speak with Correa: I asked to speak with him, and he told me the situation hewas living and ordered us to immediately rescue him; a situation we can not do it immediately, we were analyzing and planning, but we executed it; but we must not forget that we were in a state of emergency signed by the president himself, where it was provided that Armed Forces control the security system, particularly in Quito, and that meant that the president exits in conditions of safety from where he was.”

Moreover, in his book, he uses the word “retained” before “kidnapped.” “The concept of kidnapping, I think it does not fit in that situation, because we must remember that the president was in contact with many people, ministers and gave press conferences at national and international channels, and issued the emergency decree,” he said.