“He hasn’t eaten anything, he is on a hunger strike.” The ex-president Rafael Correa has announced that whoever was his trusted man, Jorge Glas, is on hunger strike. This has been communicated to him by lawyers and children of the former revolutionary vice president, who communicated telematically with Glas.
The defense lawyer Sonia Vera, that I spoke with Glas, has also confirmed that he has stopped eating in protest of his arrest. “I want it to be clear that I am not going to give up,” Glas assured during their conversation by Zoom, recorded and published by the lawyer.
“The asylum (from Mexico) did not give me freedom, but it gave me the dignity of being a politically persecuted person,” added the leader of Citizen Revolution.
Glas remains since last Saturday in the maximum security prison of The rock, after the violent assault by Ecuadorian elite forces on the Embassy of Mexico in Quito. The politician twice convicted of corruption was involved in a confusing incident on Monday, which led him to Naval Hospital of Guayaquil, after ingesting several anti-depression pills that Correa insisted was a suicide attempt.
“We are responsible for Daniel Noboa for Jorge’s physical and moral integrity,” said the former president from his refuge in Europa as a fugitive from Ecuadorian Justice. Both Glas and Correa are sentenced to eight years in prison for the Bribery Case.
The former vice president recounted for the first time how he was captured inside the embassy. “I everything was beaten and they sit me down to read my rights. I fade away. I tried to stand up (get up) but I couldn’t because of the beating they had given me… (Later) they took me out of the car (vehicle) all hanging, all tortured, like at the time of the dictatorship,” he explained.
In parallel to the embassy crisis, it is developing in Miami a trial against the former comptroller Carlos Polit, during which alleged bribes to Glas were revealed today Wednesday. This has been stated by someone who was an executive of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, José Conceiao Santos, as reported by the news portal First fruits.
The payment of the bribes would have been made through an uncle of the then vice president, and the money sent to a company created in Space.