The National Electoral Council (CNE) confirms that elections in Ecuador will take place next Sunday, February 7, according to the election calendar and convening, approved in March 2020. We invite you to inquire through official channels and ignore the fake information circulating on social networking. This is the response the agency is giving to a message from former Bolivian President Evo Morales, which was replicated on Twitter by María Gabriela Chávez, daughter of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
The message in question, denied by the CNE, is about a “warning to the international community” about an alleged suspension of elections in Ecuador a week after they were held. According to the daughter of Morales and Chávez, this would be “to avoid the certain victory” of the Correismo candidate, Andrés Arauz, who visited him in Bolivia on 11 November on the occasion of his return to his country.
“We invite you to be informed through official channels and ignore the false information circulating on social networks,” the CNE replied to that message written just two days ago.
We draw the international community’s attention to this @cnegobec plans to suspend elections in Ecuador a week after their completion in order to avoid its sure victory @cuarauz. That would be a very serious attack on democracy.
– Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) January 30, 2021
The luxurious life of Chávez’s daughter in New York
Chávez’s daughter has remained unremarkable since she left her post as Venezuela’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations.
After months of rumors, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry reported last year that María Gabriela retired from his service at the UN on January 15, 2019.
A bank account used by María Gabriela Chávez during the early years of her stay in New York as a diplomatic representative to the United Nations first revealed the sophisticated consumption style that the then diplomatic official had, who was used to making purchases in the most elite stores of the Big Apple, a fact that is in stark contrast to the austerity preached by Chavista’s socialism.
The bank account, which according to documents had several million dollars in deposits and transfers to third parties, and which was later canceled on suspicion of money laundering Due to corruption, it was headed by Venezuelan lawyer Roberto Leyba, known as María Gabriel’s boyfriend.
The current account was opened at the then Mercantil Commercebank in Miami in October 2014, just two weeks after Chávez’s daughter was appointed Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations.
According to Leyba, the account was created to “cover personal expenses,” according to Florida regulatory documents reviewed by the newspaper. America from Miami.
Consumption habits stem from a detailed account of purchases made in Manhattan, which is included in a report of “suspicious activity” from that bank account, fed with funds whose legitimate origin has not adequately explained to regulators by the account holder.
According to the debit card movements, the Leyba-Chávez couple spent tens of thousands of dollars on shows at Madison Square Garden and exclusive luxury stores such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hugo Boss, Michael Kors, Kenneth Cole, Victoria Secret, all located in Manhattan.
The bank account that financed María Gabriel’s ‘American dream’ for years was eventually closed in 2016 due to inconsistencies that the owners could not explain to North American regulators. Originally, Leyba had stated that he had an income of about $ 800,000 per year, divided between 300,000 in salary and 500,000 in other income, according to the documents.
This millionaire life of Chávez’s favorite daughter is unthinkable in Venezuela, a country impoverished by an overwhelming economic crisis with an inflation rate of 844% until October 2020 according to data from the Central Bank of Venezuela and the minimum wage of less than $ 2 a year. . month.