The Ministry of Communication indicated that statements by President Noboa in The New Yorker were decontextualized

Irene Vélez, Secretary of Communication of the Presidency of the Republic, pointed out that President Daniel Noboa’s statements in The New Yorker were decontextualized . The statements were collected this Tuesday, June 18, 2024, in El Universo.

According to the Ministry of Communication, the conversations that took place between the president and the journalist were in a colloquial tone.

Alleged statements made by the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, about his counterparts from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, Javier Milei of Argentina, Gabriel Boric, president of Chile, and the president of Brazil, Lula Da Silva, were spread in the international media.

“The conversations that took place between the president and the journalist were in a colloquial tone, absolutely colloquial and private, in that sense, anything the president said, especially about presidents, is decontextualized,” said the head of the Secretariat. Communication.

And she highlighted that “they do not represent at all what the president thinks of his counterparts.”

The Ministry of Communication informed – to El Universo – that The New Yorker journalists were invited months ago by the National Government to demonstrate how all human rights were being complied with in the midst of a state of emergency.

However, Vélez pointed out that “that space and that closeness that was given to the medium has been used to not only criticize, but also generate fronts of attacks on the Government.”

And she said, “Yes, it is surprising that just now it comes out and it even seems that they have the intention of breaking up leaders in the region who are from a line other than the extreme left.”