Ex-president to fight jail call

FORMER president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, pictured, yesterday called Ecuador’s demand for him to be extradited from Belgium and jailed as ‘politically motivated to stamp out the opposition’. He added it will ‘instead push him back to the forefront of politics’.

Ecuador’s chief prosecutor this week demanded Correa’s arrest and extradition in relation to his possible links with the botched, brief 2012 kidnapping of outspoken legislator Fernando Balda.