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Ecuador seeks a former Vice President who is permitted sanctuary in the Mexican Embassy.

Honduras is dealing with a man who's been charged by the U.S. for drug running,

despite the fact that he was, I think, an anchor of the US DEA fight against

drug running in Central America, and Martinelli, the former president of Panama, has sanctuary

in a Nicaragua embassy in Panama. Let's start with Ecuador. It's gone through

a rough election. It's gone through a violence patch. There's no reason to believe it's successfully solved.

The seeking of a former vice president, is that important in Nuboa or is this old business

professor?

It is John old business, but it's an old business reflection

of how when the radical populace left as his held power,

it has unleashed a combination of corruption in other difficulties that is complicated governance in those countries.

And so the Jorge Glass was a legacy of he was vice president under Raphael Correa, the anti-U.S.

populist that ran the country from 2006 through 2017.

But as the vice president, he was convicted on two corruption related things. Number one was taking significant bribes from

Odegrich. Number two was that he was actually using contractor money to channel to the campaign of Raphael Correa.

He was convicted in Ecuadorian courts

for both of those things

and actually serve five years of a jail sentence.

There is a new charge now in which he has essentially been convicted for corruption, essentially

using the resources that were sent by international organizations for rebuilding the city of

Mona B that was just decimated by a 2016 earthquake. The bottom line is that

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