Moreno Government announces future entry of Ecuador to the Pacific Alliance and new revelations about October protests

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Marcelo Ebrard, Sebastián Piñera, Martín Vizcarra, Iván Duque and Lenín Moreno on July 6, 2019 (Credit: CRIS BOURONCLE / AFP via Getty Images)

(CNN Spanish) - The presidents of Ecuador and Colombia met on Wednesday in Cali in the framework of the eighth binational cabinet to discuss issues on the common agenda such as security, connectivity, economy, border issues and trade. Both leaders indicated that the relationship between the two countries goes through "their best moment."

In that sense, the president of Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, announced that the country is about to become a full member of the Pacific Alliance. President Duque gave his support for this integration and announced that by 2020 Colombia will have the pro tempore presidency.

President Moreno took advantage of this meeting to refer to the social protests unleashed in Ecuador and other countries in the region as mechanisms that legitimize the clamor of the people, although he said there is an interference of vandalism and criminal groups with destabilizing and undemocratic interests.

Moreno said those groups "pitifully remember those wicked, sinister groups that interfere with the social behavior of the people to do their criminal actions." He added that, unfortunately for democracy in Latin America, there are "tyrannical forces" that "govern in some countries."

The president also announced that in the next few days the Ecuadorian government will have the results of investigations into the violent protests of October, and in relation to a group of assembly members who requested protection at the Mexican embassy in Quito, Moreno said: “Some that they have taken refuge without having any type of accusation in embassies as in the case of the Mexican embassy where a group of people who did not have any type of accusation took refuge. They were taking refuge because they had the conscience that was weighing them. ”

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