José Cléver Jiménez Cabrera (born 17 September 1969) is an Ecuadorian politician.

Biography

Jiménez was the Prefect of the

Zamora-Chinchipe Province Zamora Chinchipe (), Province of Zamora Chinchipe is a province of the Republic of Ecuador, located at the southeastern end of the Amazon Basin, which shares borders with the Ecuadorian provinces of Azuay and Morona Santiago to the north, Loja a ...

from 2019 to 2023. He was a member of the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

from 2009 to 2017. He was a member of the Pachakutik Party during his parliamentary career. During the 2013–2014 National Assembly session, his parliamentary assistant was journalist Fernando Villavicencio. During this time, Jiménez and Villavicencio accused President

Rafael Correa Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (; born 6 April 1963), known as Rafael Correa, is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation ...

of having ordered an armed incursion at a hospital during a police revolt in September 2010. He was sued by Correa for libel and had an arrest warrant against him. Instead of turning himself in, he hid in the Amazon region until his sentence expired.

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