Among them is former Corista Vice President Jorge Glass The first 300 prisoners were transferred to a maximum security prison in EcuadorIt was built on the initiative of President Daniel Noboa with the aim of being an emblem of his security policy against leaders of organized crime. Similar to the prison model implemented by Nayib Bukele In El Salvador against gang members.
“Welcome to the new home. Other criminals will arrive soon,” Noboa wrote on social media with some photos of a disheveled Glass upon his arrival at the prison facilities. The so-called assembly prison Inside his new cell, he wore the orange clothes that the government imposes on prisoners in its prisons.
All this happens in the crucial week He called a referendum Ecuador’s president is set to decide, among other things, whether to form a constituent assembly that will draft a new constitution and whether foreign military bases will be allowed in the country again.
Glass, who had been detained in La Roca, the country’s highest security prison until now, was transferred despite recent precautionary measures issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACT), which obligated the Ecuadorian state to guarantee his physical and mental health, in order to “guarantee his rights to health, personal safety and life.”
The former vice president of Korea, who was convicted three times of corruption crimes, was arrested last year in the attack Noboa ordered on the Mexican embassy in Quito after the Mexican government deemed it a crime. Political persecuted In front of the judicial processes that are accumulating in the Ecuadorian judiciary.
Before his arrest inside the Mexican embassy, what was he? A key figure in the government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017) He has yet to finish serving an eight-year prison sentence for two corruption convictions.
last June, Glass was again sentenced to 13 years in prison for embezzlement (Embezzlement of public funds) during the reconstruction process of areas affected by the 2016 earthquake.
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The new prison, which the government called “Cárcel del Encuentro”, in reference to the slogan used by the administration of former President Guillermo Laso (2021-2023), which Noboa replaced, Construction began in June 2024 with a budget of $52 millionbut it has not been opened yet.
The prison was built with the intention of existing Responding to the criminal violence crisis Which has plagued Ecuadorian prisons in recent years, with more than 500 inmates killed since 2021, most of them in a series of massacres due to clashes between rival gangs.
The transfer took place just one day after the massacre of 31 prisoners in Machala prison, in El Oro province, on the border with Peru; It is a massacre that the government attributes to these prison transfers which, according to Interior Minister John Remberg, the prisoners wanted to avoid.
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