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Who is Gabriel Fuks, the ambassador pointed out by the escape of the former Ecuadorian official

2023-03-15T18:12:47.180Z


He was secretary of security Gabriel Marcelo Fuks, until now the Argentine ambassador in Ecuador, became involved in an international scandal after María Duarte Pesantes, a former Rafael Correa official who is convicted of acts of corruption, escaped from the embassy he directs in that country. Duarte Pesantes fled without a trace from the embassy headquarters where she had been a refugee since the beginning of 2020 so as no


Gabriel Marcelo Fuks, until now the Argentine ambassador in Ecuador, became involved in an international scandal after María Duarte Pesantes, a former Rafael Correa official who is convicted of acts of corruption, escaped from the embassy he directs in that country.

Duarte Pesantes fled without a trace from the embassy headquarters where she had been a refugee since the beginning of 2020 so as not to be detained.

Last year, Alberto Fernández granted her political asylum, but she, the woman, could not leave the country because Guillermo Lasso, president of Ecuador, did not grant her an immunity safe-conduct to get to the airport.

Lasso is facing Correa. 

He escaped from the embassy over the weekend and when the police asked Fuks for the security cameras he refused to hand them over.

In Ecuador, he suspects that Fuks played a central role in the escape. 

The headquarters of the Argentine embassy in Ecuador.

The ambassador - who must leave office this Sunday at the latest - was Alberto Fernández's Secretary of Security, between 2019 and 2021. Former legislator and militant of Peronism in Buenos Aires, he spent more time waiting to go to the embassy (nine months) than in charge of the mission (eight months).

Until mid-September 2021, his position was that of Secretary of Federal Articulation of Security of the Argentine Nation under the charge of the former minister of the area, Sabina Frederic.

Frederic's fall into political "misfortune" dragged down the entire leadership of the area.

The President appointed him ambassador to Ecuador a month later to correct the link with Lasso, since the Embassy had been vacant since December 2019 because Fernández got along very badly with Rafael Correa's successor, Lenin Moreno.

At the time, Lasso gave him the pleasure of style in seven days.

Before, from 2003 to the end of 2013, he chaired the White Helmets Commission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship.

As the "infinite" wait to which the Senate now subjected the former AFI controller, Cristina Caamaño, appointed ambassador to Israel, Fuks had to wait nine months at the time to go to Ecuador.

They appointed him in September 2021, the Upper House confirmed him as political ambassador only in June 2022, and he was able to leave in July of that year.

He sought to give the Embassy in Ecuador a commercial profile, and to awaken a link that was off.

But the Duarte Pesantes case took away his mission.

Source: clarin

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