The Biden administration should stop extending blind support for Guillermo Lasso’s corruption-ridden presidency.


Luis Ortiz is a political analyst and development consultant, and former counselor for Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile at the Board of Directors of the I... nter-American Development Bank (2009–2017). He is the director of “Voces,” a podcast on Latin American politics sponsored by Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy, and a columnist at El Faro (Central America) and La Línea del Medio (Colombia).
The Biden administration should stop extending blind support for Guillermo Lasso’s corruption-ridden presidency.

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