María de los Ángeles Duarte served as Minister of Public Works under the government of Rafael Correa.

Maria de los Angeles Duarte, the former Ecuadorian minister who escaped from the Argentine embassy in Quito, explained her reasons. “I had to go out at risk“, he said on his Twitter account.

“I thank the Argentine Republic for having sheltered me from the persecution of the governments of Lenin Moreno there Guillermo Lasso“, began his message on the social network.

“I decided to leave the Embassy because by denying me the safe conduct that corresponded to me as a political refugee, in accordance with the Caracas Convention of 1954 and preventing my safe exit (safe conduct) , the Ecuadorian government has made me its political hostage. I had to leave at risk, but I practiced the right that helped me“, he added.

And he closed the message with a sentence of Martin Luther King: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

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