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Ecuadorian Right-Wing Seeks to Fuel Lawfare Against Correa

Citizen Revolution presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez (L) & and VP candidate Andres Arauz, June 2023. | Photo: Twitter/ @CanalRevolCN

Conservatives are trying to build media narratives and judicial processes to turn the assassination of General Gabela into a politically motivated event. On Friday, the newspaper Ecuador Informa warned about the possibility of Ecuadorian right-wing forces instrumentalizing the justice system to turn a criminal case into a new pretext for discrediting and persecuting the leaders of the Citizen Revolution, the »