The so-called Spanish Democratic Initiative Group (IDEA), which is made up of former presidents and politicians from Latin America, issued a letter to support the investigations of the State Attorney General, Diana Salazar, and her work team for the Metastasis case, which investigates a drug trafficking leak in Ecuador ‘s judicial system.
Prosecutor Diana Salazar heads the investigations in the so-called Metastasis case, which reveals how drug trafficking infiltrated the country’s justice system.
The letter is dated December 22, but was released on December 26 by former president Guillermo Lasso, one of those who signed the document.
There they remember that the candidate for the presidency of Ecuador, Fernando Villavicencio (+), in his role as an assemblyman had already denounced and documented “the corruption of the government of Rafael Correa and the relations of officials and politicians with the crime of drug trafficking.”
This mention is made because the so-called Puebla Group, made up of left-wing political leaders, “observed with concern how a Prosecutor began an abnormal persecution of judges…”.
For this reason, they express their “strongest support for the brave work of the team carrying out the investigations. (…) We want to highlight the courage and determination of the aforementioned attorney general, as well as her entire team of investigators.
In addition to Lasso, the letter is also signed by renowned Ecuadorian politicians such as former presidents Osvaldo Hurtado, Lucio Gutiérrez, Jamil Mahuad and Lenin Moreno.
Likewise, other names standout such as Mauricio Macri, former president of Argentina, Iván Duque and Álvaro Uribe, former presidents of Colombia, Luis Lacalle, former president of Uruguay, Sebastián Piñera, former president of Chile, among others.
Salaza r heads the investigations in the so-called Metastasis case, which reveals how drug trafficking infiltrated the Ecuadorian justice system in complicity with police officers, judges, lawyers, prosecutors, among others.
Ecuavisa reports that 31 people are detained in this case and another eight will be prosecuted in January of the following year.
