{"id":347174,"date":"2018-02-07T13:56:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/silvia-glas-in-ecuador-there-is-no-justice-for-jorge-glas\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:56:30","slug":"silvia-glas-in-ecuador-there-is-no-justice-for-jorge-glas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/silvia-glas-in-ecuador-there-is-no-justice-for-jorge-glas\/","title":{"rendered":"Silvia Glas: \u201cIn Ecuador there is no justice for Jorge Glas\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/02\/silvia-glas-in-ecuador-there-is-no-justice-for-jorge-glas\/jorge-glas2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76568\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76568\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/jorge-glas2-e1517996732711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>Jorge Glas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>With a positive balance after 10 years as president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa helped Alianza Pa\u00eds emerge victorious in the second round of the presidential elections in early 2017. But a complete turnaround was soon on the cards: newly elected president Len\u00edn Moreno started to attack the legacy of the Citizens Revolution that had gotten him elected. An important part of Alianza Pa\u00eds, faithful to the social policies of \u201cBuen Vivir\u201d (\u201cGood Living\u201d), disapproved of this. Then, vice-president Jorge Glas, who could be counted among these critical voices, was removed from his post and again put in the media spotlight, accused of corruption amidst the Odebrecht affair. A mere coincidence or fate? After four months of pre-trial detention, in January 2018 Jorge Glas was sentenced to six years in prison. Silvia Glas, economist and sister of Jorge Glas, granted an exclusive interview to Investig\u2019Action, in which she exposes the \u201clack of evidence\u201d for the verdict and calls for breaking the media blockade surrounding this case.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Anfrons: <\/strong>On May 24, 2017, a new government took office in Ecuador with Len\u00edn Moreno as president and Jorge Glas as vice-president. When does this winning partnership sour?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Silvia Glas:<\/strong> We can point to two important moments: on August 2nd, 2017, in a public letter, Jorge Glas denounces alleged irregularities in the governance of Len\u00edn Moreno. Moreno then relieved Glas of all his legally mandated duties on August&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/02\/silvia-glas-in-ecuador-there-is-no-justice-for-jorge-glas\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Glas With a positive balance after 10 years as president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa helped Alianza Pa\u00eds emerge victorious in the second round of the presidential elections in early 2017. But a complete turnaround was soon on the cards: newly elected president Len\u00edn Moreno started to attack the legacy of the Citizens Revolution that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}