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Fernando Marcelo Balda Flores (born 3 August 1971) is an Ecuadorian politician.
Politics
Balda stated that he had been abducted in July 2012 in
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...
,
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
, to which he had fled because in 2009, he had dropped his support for the Ecuadorian government, had changed from being a member of parliament for
Alianza País to an opposition member of the
Patriotic Society Party
The Patriotic Society Party ( es, Partido Sociedad Patriótica, PSP), formerly the January 21 Patriotic Society ( es, Sociedad Patriótica 21 de Enero) is a populist and personalist political party in Ecuador, led by former army colonel Lucio G ...
, and had been accused of involvement in a
failed coup in 2010.
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Semana
''Semana'' (Spanish: ''Week'') is a weekly magazine in Colombia.
History
''Semana'' was founded in 1946 by Alberto Lleras Camargo (who would become president of Colombia in 1958) and that folded in 1961. It was relaunched by journalist Felipe L ...
, 6 June 2018 (in Spanish) Balda was deported from Colombia to Ecuador in October 2012 to serve a prison sentence. As of 2019, Ecuador is asking for its former 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 ...
to be extradited from Belgium for involvement in the purported abduction.
Ecuador court orders ex-president Correa's arrest
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, 4 July 2018
Balda signed the ''
Madrid Charter
The ''Madrid Charter: In Defense of Freedom and Democracy in the Iberosphere'' ( Spanish: ''Carta de Madrid: en defensa de la libertad y la democracia en la Iberosfera''), also known as the ''Letter from Madrid'', was a manifesto created on 26 O ...
'', a document drafted by the right-wing Spanish party
Vox that describes left-wing groups as enemies of
Ibero-America
Ibero-America ( es, Iberoamérica, pt, Ibero-América) or Iberian America is a region in the Americas comprising countries or territories where Spanish language, Spanish or Portuguese language, Portuguese are predominant languages (usually form ...
involved in a "criminal project" that are "under the umbrella of the Cuban regime".
Sofía Espín
Sofía Eugenia Espín Reyes is an Ecuadorian politician. After she was dismissed from the National Assembly she fled to Bolivia, where she applied for political asylum. Before this was resolved she was re-elected in May 2021. Espín was the presid ...
who was a delegate for the
Citizen Revolution, visited, Jéssica Falcón, a person in prison who was involved with the kidnap of Balda.
It was said that she and lawyer, Yadira Cadena, made an offer of legal assistance, money and political asylum, in Belgium, to Balda is she was willing to retract her evidence in the Balda case. Espin was investigated and dismissed from the National Assembly in November 2018 with a majority of 94 votes.
Espin herself went into exile.
Personal life
Balda is married and has four children.
References
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Ecuadorian politicians
Living people
1971 births