La mansión que durante años fue el hogar de Juan Gabriel en Florida ha vuelto al mercado tras una primera venta y una serie de remodelaciones que han transformado la propiedad en una residencia de lujo, por la que se piden 38,9 millones de dólares.
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In her first written message since the arrest, Luisa González rejected the accusations against her and described the country’s institutional situation as “unsustainable.”
“Today it is my turn to be detained over an absurd accusation,” she wrote on X. “I will respond with the dignity of the Ecuadorian men and women who owe nothing and who are committed to achieving freedom for Ecuador and a better future for the country,” she added.
RELATED: Former Ecuadorian President Correa Denounces the Arrest of Luisa Gonzalez
The leading figure of the Citizen’s Revolution movement also warned of mistreatment and torture inflicted on political prisoners held by the current far-right government of Daniel Noboa.
Faced with what she called a repressive escalation and a socioeconomic decline marked by violence and state corruption, González issued a call for unity to social organizations and leftist movements. “To my partners of the Citizen’s Revolution and all progressive forces, I say: it is time for unity, unity and unity to achieve freedom and democracy in the country,” she said.
She thanked communities across the country for their support and insisted that the people remain determined to overcome government censorship. González closed her statement by asserting that popular silence would eventually break the authoritarian siege and restore sovereignty and full democracy to Ecuador.
A mi patria querida 💛💙❤️ pic.twitter.com/fJrIXAvG0B
— Luisa González (@LuisaGonzalezEc) October 22, 2026
Luisa González was detained in the early hours of Thursday in the Canuto parish of Chone canton, Manabí province. National Police officers and state prosecutors carried out the operation under the name “Labyrinth case,” an inquiry authorities describe as targeting alleged electoral financing during the 2023 campaign.
The police deployment included simultaneous raids in Manabí and Pichincha provinces and ended with three people detained for the purpose of formal charges.
After the procedure, relatives and allies of González denounced uncertainty over her whereabouts. Officials have not clarified whether she remains in Manabí or is being transferred to Quito for a court hearing, a situation her supporters describe as a grave violation of due process guarantees.
The arrest is part of a broader judicial offensive against the Citizen’s Revolution movement, which is currently suspended for nine months following rulings by the Electoral Contentious Tribunal that critics say were designed to block its participation in sectional elections.
That institutional push previously prevented González from registering as a candidate for the Manabí prefecture. Quito mayor Pabel Muñoz, meanwhile, faced raids on his offices in the middle of his reelection campaign.
Ecuadorian Former President Rafael Correa denounced the detention of González in a separate statement, adding his voice to the growing criticism of the operation. The predawn arrest now places one of the government’s most prominent opponents at the center of a legal battle that her movement frames as political persecution rather than a legitimate investigation.
El Gobierno de José Antonio Kast enfrenta una gran controversia política y social luego de que un medio de comunicación informó que la Administración de derecha ha dictado 56 rebajas de condenas a delincuentes sentenciados por abuso sexual y violación de menores, una atribución que le permite la legislación al Ejecutivo para incentivar la buena conducta de los presos. El ministro de Justicia, Fernando Rabat, defendió la decisión y explicó que solamente se aplicó la ley y se siguió una interpretación respaldada por la Corte Suprema, lo que ha abierto un amplio debate jurídico. La oposición de izquierda, que ha acusado a la Administración de exponer a las víctimas, ha solicitado una sesión especial en la Cámara de Diputados para abordar el caso. Es un asunto de extrema gravedad no solo por la naturaleza de los delitos, sino porque la principal promesa de Kast en su campaña, su razón de ser, fue aumentar la seguridad pública en todos los planos, la prioridad de los chilenos.
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The statements came amid what officials called a strategic reconfiguration of the Venezuelan hydrocarbon industry. After years of intense global financial restrictions, the gradual operational reactivation of agreements between state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and international firms aims to restore a steady flow of foreign currency into the national treasury.
“No foreign agency or international financial entity administers or safeguards the public funds that enter the country from hydrocarbon sales,” National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez said.
RELATED: Venezuela’s Acting President Reviews Wage Consensus With Business, Unions
Rodríguez detailed that the money enters the public treasury under the supervision of authorized national banks, and he ruled out any external trust or any management of accounts by third parties outside the country’s institutions. In this sense, he called autonomy over foreign currency “a non-negotiable principle” for the country’s macroeconomic stability.
Sixty-one agreements are currently in force, while another 44 contracts are being negotiated. For the government, that volume confirms an operational momentum geared toward diversifying investment across the country’s main extraction fields.
The National Assembly President presented this dynamism as the result of a deliberate push to reopen the sector to international capital without surrendering control. Over the past several years, sweeping financial measures limited Venezuela’s ability to sell crude, collect payments and maintain production infrastructure. The current wave of deals represents a step-by-step return to commercial activity.
#EnVideo📹 | Coordinador del diálogo por el Gobierno Nacional, Jorge Rodríguez, aseveró que Venezuela mantiene el control sobre los recursos financieros obtenidos a través de la comercialización de petróleo hacia distintos países del mundo. pic.twitter.com/MUoEuwKXQI
— Ministerio de Comunicación e Información (@mippci_ven) October 22, 2026
Text reads: “Coordinator of the dialogue by the National Government, Jorge Rodríguez, asserted that Venezuela retains control over financial resources obtained through the marketing of oil to different countries in the world.”
Each reactivated agreement carries a single objective, officials indicated, the capture of hard currency for the public coffers. That revenue is meant to fund the productive apparatus and national infrastructure rather than remain subject to outside oversight.
The consolidation of the 61 agreements and the active negotiation of 44 more point to a strategy built on scale. By spreading investment across the country’s principal extraction zones, the government seeks to reduce dependence on any single field or partner.
Reaffirming sovereign control over monetary flows stands as a central pillar of the government’s message. The leadership projected institutional stability at a moment when Washington continues to review and adjust the licenses it grants for oil operations.
Rodríguez also denounced continuous pressure and unilateral coercive measures against the country’s financial system by foreign powers. He said that, despite what he described as an economic siege, the government has consolidated alternative mechanisms to receive payments directly for oil-product exports.
Against that backdrop, the government is working to shield energy agreements legally, dismiss any suggestion of foreign tutelage and guarantee direct financing for public budgets.
Official strategy insists that autonomous management of oil income is an indispensable guarantee for preserving fiscal balance, defending the national currency and sustaining social development programs. None of that, the argument runs, should depend on foreign political conditions.
By presenting the 61 agreements and 44 negotiations as proof of a functioning, sovereign industry, the government pushes back against narratives that portray the sector as externally managed.
For the Bolivarian government, legal protection of the energy agreements goes hand in hand with financing priorities. The revenue is meant to flow directly toward the productive apparatus and public infrastructure, a framework the leadership described as essential to institutional stability.
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Wednesday condemned the arrest warrant issued by a judge in Florida against Cuba's nonagenarian communist dictator Raúl Castro — reiterating support for their ideological mentors in the Castro regime.
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Socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani congratulated Brazil on a new labor law, applauding Lula just days before the presidential election.
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Al candidato republicano a gobernador de Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy, parece haberle salido el tiro por la culata con un anuncio de campaña contra su contrincante demócrata, Amy Acton. El controvertido anuncio es un video donde la madre de Acton, de quien ella fue separada desde niña tras una imputación de abuso sexual contra su padrastro, la llama “mentirosa”. Algunos miembros de su partido temen que con él haya “sellado” la victoria de Acton.
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En una fotografía de hace tres años, Jessica Tavares, una ciudadana estadounidense de 31 años de Massachusetts, posa vestida de blanco junto a su futuro esposo, un migrante brasileño. Todo indica que acaban de firmar el acta de matrimonio y a Tavares se le ve sonriente. En otra imagen de 2024, Erica Daniels, de 29 años, también de Massachusetts, intercambia anillos nupciales con otro migrante brasileño. Para esos días en que los declararon marido y mujer ante la ley de Estados Unidos, ninguno sospechaba que iban a ser delatados como los protagonistas de una red multimillonaria de fraude matrimonial que la Administración de Donald Trump asegura haber desmantelado.
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Estados Unidos se ha convertido en una gigantesca campaña electoral con un elefante que sobrevuela la conversación. Las concesiones del presidente, Donald Trump, a Rusia en una estrategia desesperada para rebajar el precio de los carburantes y poner fin a la guerra de Ucrania están incomodando a los candidatos republicanos, que ven cómo el acercamiento a Vladímir Putin está lastrando sus opciones en la contienda electoral.
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Luisa González, excandidata presidencial y una de las principales figuras de la oposición de Ecuador, fue detenida la madrugada de este jueves en Canuto, una zona rural de Chone, provincia de Manabí, donde reside. La Fiscalía investiga un presunto delito de lavado de activos relacionado con posibles irregularidades en la financiación de la campaña electoral de 2023, en la que González compitió por el Movimiento Revolución Ciudadana, liderado por el expresidente Rafael Correa y perdió frente a Daniel Noboa.
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