Ecuador: Former Presidential Candidate Luisa González Detained, Citizen Revolution Condemns Political Persecution
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Ecuador: Former Presidential Candidate Luisa González Detained, Citizen Revolution Condemns Political Persecution
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—Former presidential candidate of Ecuador and a leading figure of the left-wing Citizen Revolution (RC), Luisa González was arrested on Thursday, October 22, in Canuto, Manabí province, in an operation related to an investigation for alleged money laundering. The Citizen Revolution called the procedure political persecution and demanded to know her whereabouts and obtain […]
The organization classified the arrest as a kidnapping, held the Government of Noboa responsible for applying repressive measures against opposition sectors and demanded to safeguard the physical and moral integrity of the leader.
The former Ecuadorian presidential aspirant in 2023 and 2025 of the Citizen Revolution movement (RC), Luisa González, spoke on social network X after her arrest in the province of Manabí and denounced political persecution, verified the Argentine News Agency. In the statement, the policy attacked the government of the president, Daniel Noboa: “Today [...] La entrada Luisa González denounces political persecution in Ecuador and wins international…
In the 2025 campaign, #LuisaGonzález claimed that #RafaelCorrea, a fugitive from justice, would be her 'leading advisor' in case she wins.
Five weeks before the local elections, the main left-wing opponent of President Allied to Donald Trump was arrested on charges of "suspecting the laundering of assets." A new episode of political persecution that led the correist camp to say that "Ecuador is living under a dictatorship."
On Thursday, 22 October, Luisa González, a left-wing politician who twice presented himself in the presidential election in Ecuador, was arrested in the western part of the country, reviving the accusations of political persecution made to President Daniel Noboa.
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