According to the radio station Radio Pichincha, which cites sources close to the Citizen Revolution movementto which Glas belongs, the politician would have been transferred to Military Hospitalin Guayaquil, due to the consumption of a drug overdose in a suicide attempt.
The digital media Primicias also reported that Glas would have been declared in a medical comaaccording to a police report on the causes of the bankruptcy due to the “ingestion of anxiolytic, antidepressant and sedative medications.”
Likewise, it has been warned that the former vice president and ally of former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) would have been stabilized in the medical unit to which he was transferred.
For now, No Ecuadorian authority has confirmed or denied the information.despite multiple requests from the press for an official version of the alleged suicide attempt.
#LAST MINUTE | Former Vice President of Ecuador Jorge Glas is rushed to a hospital for a possible drug overdose. pic.twitter.com/yzsT56w1n2
— EFE News (@EFEnoticias) April 8, 2024
Former President Correa, who resides in Belgium, commented on his X network account regarding Glas’s alleged transfer to a hospital and wrote: “It was what I feared. The scoundrels will jump for joy. Strength, Jorge!”.
It was what I feared. The scoundrels will jump for joy.
Strength, Jorge!#TheCorruptAlwaysWereThem https://t.co/vYpiqMadyN— Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael) April 8, 2024
Glas was arrested last Friday following a violent raid by police at the Mexican Embassy in Quito and finally transferred to a maximum security prison, known as La Roca, in the coastal city of Guayaquil.
The Ecuadorian police operation at the Mexican diplomatic legation led to the breaking of diplomatic relations between both countries and led the Organization of American States (OAS) to review the case.
🔴 #Last minute || A few minutes ago, former vice president Jorge Glas would have been transferred to the Military Hospital in #Guayaquildue to a drug overdose. pic.twitter.com/2pzPzXoFmt
— Radio Pichincha (@radio_pichincha) April 8, 2024
“Complex” situation
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaaccepted this Monday the existence of a “complex and unprecedented situation” following the police raid ordered by his Government at the Mexican Embassy in Quito last Friday.
#LAST MINUTE | Former Vice President of Ecuador Jorge Glas is rushed to a hospital for a possible drug overdose. pic.twitter.com/yzsT56w1n2
— EFE News (@EFEnoticias) April 8, 2024
However, he assured that he had to take “exceptional decisions to protect national security, the rule of law and the dignity of a people that rejects any type of impunity for criminals, delinquents or narco-terrorists.”
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