The president of Ecuador assures that drug trafficking would have financed the national strike

MADRID, 9 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, has assured that drug trafficking would have financed with almost 15 million euros the mobilizations that would have taken place in the country for 18 days and that were called by indigenous organizations.

Lasso has maintained in an interview with the digital newspaper Infobae published on Thursday that, although he considers the demands for rural and peasant development of the mobilizations to be fair, there would have been an alliance of indigenous organizations and Correismo, with the financing of drug trafficking, to " fabricate a protest to overthrow" his government.

"This is an alliance with Correismo and a third actor participates in this alliance, which is the one that puts up the money for the protests, which will have cost close to 15 million euros for 18 days. This actor is drug trafficking in Ecuador." , the Ecuadorian president has detailed, accusing former president Rafael Correa of ​​wanting to alter public order from his exile in Belgium.

Likewise, Lasso has pointed out that Correa and the organizers of the mobilizations would have coordinated the protests because "they were seeking to destabilize the country."

"That is the political action of a former president sentenced for corruption, who lives on the run in Belgium, who seeks to alter public order, allied with certain political leaders who use indigenous people as a kind of parapet to say 'this is a social protest' ", has added.

These statements have taken place while the implementation of the ten thematic dialogue tables agreed by the Executive and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONIAE) to address the main social needs is being developed.

On Thursday, both parties had their first meeting to define the "road map" by which to comply with the agreements that ended the protests this month and that lasted for more than two weeks, leaving at least six dead.