In the United States, federal prosecutors filed federal indictments against Senator Roberto Menendez and his wife, Nadine, for conspiring to act as agents of the Egyptian government. It seems to me that this matter could ultimately affect the Government of Ecuador because of the kind of patronage that the said Democratic senator has had in recent years, promoting alleged Ecuadorian interests in the United States Senate, where he served as chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee. Prosecutors have documented serious evidence, recordings, photos, which seriously compromise the senator, and Ecuador must ask the American authorities if there is anything among so many recordings that compromises the state.

That’s how Ecuador found itself on the agenda of the accused US Senator Bob Menéndez

Last year, Senator Menéndez, leading a group of his colleagues, visited Ecuador and promoted that the Senate of the United States dictated some legislative measures that would be effective in our country without the knowledge of the Ecuadorian Assembly. There were already proposals for that interference in the Assembly. I understand that Menéndez and other senators acted in concert with the Ecuadorian ambassador in Washington. Everything about Senator Menéndez is under investigation, and Ecuador must keep a prudent distance from his actions.

The FBI found piles of money and gold bars in the home of Senator Bob Menendez in a corruption investigation

There are so many things going on in this interconnected world that we can’t avoid the need to talk about things that used to be so far away from us.

US Senator Bob Menéndez, accused of helping Egypt as a ‘secret agent’

Last year we had to talk about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, regardless of our commercial interests. Russia is a big buyer of our bananas. We reject the Russian invasion based on the legal principle of non-recognition of territorial acquisitions made by force.

US President Joe Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday

Today we are at a new crossroads due to the attack of the Hamas group on Israel. I think that we must condemn the terrorist attack, but oppose the massacre of the Palestinian people, and stand by the claim that a solution must be found in the norms of the United Nations, which advocate the coexistence of two peoples with the formula of creating two states. . We must bear in mind the rights of the civilian population of Palestine who have been given one day by the Government of Israel to leave Palestine. A million people leave their homes. The human drama is terrible. His government did not disclose the attack and today part of the internal opinion in Israel holds it responsible and tries to compensate for its failure by abusing the Palestinian people. This divides public opinion in the world. Rejecting the Hamas attack becomes rejecting the Netanyahu government – not the people of Israel. If the Russian occupation of Ukraine is reprehensible, then the occupation of Arab territory is also reprehensible. There are no middle terms. Only the creation of two states can bring peace, peaceful coexistence. Defense of the Law is the only way for people in general, and even more so for the weaker ones. (OR)