In a video posted on the social network X, Correa questioned the Executive branch’s use of funds earmarked for post-quake projects to finance a bridge in the coastal province of Manabí, while Glas remains imprisoned over decisions related to those very resources.

  Correa noted that current President Daniel Noboa recently inaugurated the Quimizá bridge in Manabí, using an investment of $7.3 million drawn from funds established after the April 16, 2016 earthquake.

  “That money that had supposedly gone missing—do you remember? The lie repeated all these years claiming it hadn’t been used, or had been diverted, and so on. Yet here, the project isn’t even about reconstruction,” he stated.

  According to the former leader, the infrastructure project involved replacing a bridge that collapsed in 2021—years after the earthquake—and he criticized the fact that Glas was convicted over budget usage for projects that *were* actually linked to the recovery of areas affected by the quake.

  “Jorge Glas was sentenced to 13 years in prison for building Las Vegas Park in Portoviejo—located in a seismic zone to prevent people from resettling there and to control flooding,” he maintained.

  “There is an innocent man in prison, persecuted in the most brazen manner for simply doing his job. The very people who abducted him from an embassy and buried him alive in a high-security prison are now using those same funds to rebuild bridges that collapsed in 2021,” Correa emphasized.

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