Gustavo Larrea is a former Interior Minister of
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
who had been appointed in 2006. A commission set up by President
Rafael Correa
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (; born 6 April 1963) is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as the 45th president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Corr ...
to investigate
Operacion Fenix alleged that Larrea had direct links to
FARC
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (, FARC–EP or FARC) was a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict starting in 1964. The FARC-EP was officially founded in 1966 from peasan ...
, which Larrea disputed. By 2011 Larrea had become a notable critic of President Correa, particularly in regard to an effort to "revamp" the judicial system. Larrea called this idea "an authoritarian project" and an attempt to "control the courts".
"Ecuador Votes On Bullfight Ban"
''The Daily Telegraph
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'': Sydney, Australia. December 26, 2005.
References
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Government ministers of Ecuador
Ecuadorian socialists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people