Martin Luther King, along with other historical leaders in the fight against injustice, sought to mobilize those who watch and remain silent. The ability to recognize bad people, according to King, was less crucial than the painful silence of good ones. General Jorge Gabela was doing his job, he tried to prevent the purchase of defective helicopters that he had. In a hurry, he reached the president with the evidence, he had to face the generals from his institution, one publicly threatened him. Four helicopters went down which led to the deaths of two pilots we never talked about. Even worse, they themselves are accused of failure, as if they could have chosen not to operate these devices. The cynical lamb said that there is no problem because the insurance pays. Only money, barely a fraction of the bill because of the horror these ships caused to so many families and the country; while the 3 remaining helicopters rot in the hangars less gloomy than the evil and cowards behind this story.

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The exit from the FAE did not stop the danger, General Gabela was killed. To make matters worse, he continued to persecute his family, especially his stoic widow: Patricia Ochoa. This family continues to fight, not for justice, for which time has shown that there is none, but to avoid even more meanness and crimes that others will suffer. Today, when corruption, drug trafficking and violence have infiltrated the everyday life of Ecuador, into the entire state apparatus, isn’t it time to look back on the decades of members of the police force who did business with the purchase of weapons and others? How can they hire Hitmen and continue with impunity? Why is Ecuador a transit point for huge amounts of drugs and trafficking, even for minors, due to the ineffectiveness of those who have to prevent it, are they too involved in these affairs? But above all, isn’t it the lack of consequences, the ability to avoid arrest, trial and conviction that allows violence to grow? Why don’t even candidates, rulers or legal persons try to change this spiral of injustice in which we are sinking? The country has many almost insurmountable problems, but the worst is injustice.

Roberto Meza: They used a report that had the conclusions they wanted. I’m not talking about what was forged, I think a new document was made and they didn’t dare to forge my signature because that was the last thing missing

So many years have passed and so many more to go for the family of Gabela Ochoa to get some justice, some minimal compensation for the hell their lives have been plunged into due to the crimes of greed and cowardice of so many people in the Ecuadorian state. Many FAE people were involved in persecution, murders and cover-ups. Many people from Rafael Correa’s government who hid and falsified documents, only to remain silent, pretend, continue to lie.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inevitable web of reciprocity, bound in one garment of fate. What directly affects one, indirectly affects all. He who passively accepts evil is just as involved in it as he who helps commit it. He who accepts evil without rebelling against it is really cooperating with it.” ML King (OR)