The Argentine ambassador to Ecuador,
Gabriel Fuks, left Quito this Friday
amid the scandal over the escape of a former official convicted of corruption and three days after being declared persona non grata.
Fuks left the Argentine diplomatic headquarters in Quito and left the country at 10 in the morning, as confirmed by Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín.
It was Holguín himself who
on Tuesday expelled Fuks
from that country by declaring him persona non grata and giving him three days to leave.
The Ecuadorian diplomatic representative insinuated that Fucks “liberated” the area from the police so that María Duarte Pesantes, a
former Rafael Correa official convicted of corruption
, could escape.
Duarte Pesantes was a "guest" at the Argentine embassy.
"This man (for Fuks) was not only an accomplice in the departure of Mrs. Duarte from the Embassy, but he has lied to us, from Monday to Wednesday, not once but on several occasions, and it was his own president who told him denied it and his own foreign minister who denied it," Holguín said in an interview with FM Mundo.
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.
She but
she reappeared in Caracas
doing administrative "procedures" with ambassador Oscar Laborde.
The former Correa official
entered the Argentine embassy in August 2020
when the then Argentine business manager opened the doors for her on instruction from Buenos Aires.
Carlos Catella is today Director of Migrations within the consular area, and since there was no ambassador, he managed the Argentine headquarters between the end of 2019 and July 2022, when Fuks arrived.
The Argentine embassy in Quito, Ecuador.
Photo: AFP
Last year,
Alberto Fernández granted her political asylum
, but the woman could not leave the country because Guillermo Lasso, president of Ecuador, did not grant her an immunity safe-conduct to arrive at the airport.
Lasso is facing Correa.
He escaped from the embassy over the weekend and when police asked Fuks for the security cameras at the embassy, he refused to hand them over.
Fucks was
Secretary of Security for Alberto Fernández, 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.
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Who is Gabriel Fuks, the ambassador pointed out by the escape of the former Ecuadorian official
The Ecuadorian foreign minister accused Gabriel Fuks of freeing the area for the former official convicted of corruption to escape
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