Ecuador’s Former Presidential Candidate Spends His First Night in Pretrial Detention
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Quito, Oct 24 (EFE).- Former presidential candidate Luisa González, one of the main figures of the opposition to the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, spent her first night in prison after having been remanded in custody after being arrested in a case investigating an alleged money laundering during the campaign [...] Ecuador's presidential candidate ticket spent her first night in pretrial detention was first published in HolaNews.
Prosecutor's Office investigates the alleged laundering of assets linked to the Citizen Revolution campaign of 2023. González will go to pretrial detention in Riobamba.
The political bloc demanded that the Government of Noboa guarantee the integrity of Luisa González, transparency and due process, and called on the IACHR and the UN to intervene before the political use of justice.
Less than a month after the November 2026 sectional elections in Ecuador, the arrest of Luisa González is not an isolated event, but the climax of a strategy of lawfare and media manipulation designed to neutralize the Citizen Revolution. This report breaks down, in three phases, how the ruling party has used the judicial apparatus, disinformation and prison panic to capture the electoral agenda and criminalize the country’s main opposition bloc…
Former presidential candidate Luisa González was arrested for an alleged money laundering in Ecuador. Colombian ex-mandators demand clarity about her arrest and protection of her rights.
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