Latin Times – Fernando Villavicencio, Ecuador Journalist, Home Raided For Being Opposition Activist

“Why did the President know within hours of the raid the result of it?” said an Ecuadorian activist, reports BuzzFeed, who requested to be anonymous. “If the raid was ordered by the public prosecutor, i.e. justice, how did the president know so fast what happened? The answer is that in Ecuador there is no independent judiciary. The president controls judges and nobody does anything without his permission.”

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