Havana interfered in Ecuador, claims Daniel Noboa

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa said his government had detected interference in “political, dissident, and even violent” activities in the country by the Cuban regime, which justified the expulsion of the ambassador and all diplomatic officials from Havana. From what we have seen, there was considerable interference by Cuba in political activities, in dissident activities, and even in violent activities in some cases," Noboa said, without going into details, in an interview on Monday, March 9, with local radio station Sucre. Noboa added that when, “with sufficient evidence,” Cuban diplomats, including their ambassador Basilio Gutiérrez, were told to leave the Andean country, they began burning documents. “They made a barbecue out of papers,” he said, referring to the use of an oven on the roof of the diplomatic headquarters to incinerate documents, which Noboa shared in a video on his social media accounts last week. The president indicated in this regard that "diplomatic documents are protected. If he simply wants to be here to destabilize, to plan riots, to incite disorder, we don't need people like that in this country. On top of that, he was allowed to live a quiet life in Ecuador and had a very high salary at a university in the province of Manabi in the past, but now no more, simply no more, he's leaving," he emphasized. In the interview with Radio Sucre, when asked if Casado had any connection to what happened with the Cuban diplomats, Noboa replied: “Yes, there is a connection, yes, there is a connection, they all work together,” according to the Ecuadorian newspaper Expreso. Luis González has had close ties to Havana for years. The politician has been a constant presence at meetings and conferences organized by the island's regime.