Amnesty for Ricardo Patiño Will Be Considered

The National Assembly of Ecuador accepted an amnesty request for the former foreign minister of Rafael Correa, Ricardo Patiño.

The Administration Council of the Legislature (CAL), approved the request with five votes in favor and one abstention. Since the plea involves Patiño's constitutional right to free speech, the measure moves next to a special commission assigned to issues that arose from the 2019 protests of Correísmo and Pachakutik.

The only abstention was Nathalie Arias, while the president of the Assembly, Virgilio Saquicela (ind.), and the delegates of correísmo, the Social Christian Party (PSC) and the Democratic Left (ID), voted in favor.

This Tuesday, January 17, the General Confederation of Workers of Peru, CGTP, and the National Assembly of the Peoples, ANP, held a press conference to call a national strike on January 19.

LIMA 16jan23 The Boluarte-Otárola dictatorial regime established a state of emergency in the regions of Lima, Callao, Puno and Cusco, in response to the various calls for popular mobilization that were announced for this Monday, January 16, and whose objectives are the resignation of Dina Boluarte, the closure of the coup and oligarchic Congress, and the call for new elections.

INDYRADIO (12jan23) At about the same time John Young of cryptome.org got permanently suspended from Twitter, we were doing some research and could not access any files from wikileaks.org

Of course, the site looks completely normal, unless you actually try to use it.

We tried from several different locations in the world, since we have access to servers, but the results are either a 502 or 503 error.