Far-Right will do Anything to Sway Election in Ecuador - Interview with Fidel Narvez [View all]

11th April 2025

“The April 13 Ecuadorian runoff election between the left-wing Citizen Revolution candidate Luisa González and the incumbent right-wing President Daniel Noboa takes place in a backdrop of soaring crime, economic collapse, and energy crisis and blackouts.”

In a special interview with Orinoco Tribune, Ecuadorian human rights expert Fidel Narváez expressed his confidence in the Citizen Revolution candidate, Luisa González, who leads going into the second round of Ecuador’s presidential election on April 13. However, he stressed that the public should remain alert for potential last-minute interference by Ecuador’s far right and US imperialism.


“They killed a presidential candidate to sway the 2023 vote. They are capable of anything—but Ecuador now sees through these tricks,” Narváez said in this regard.

Fidel Narváez studied International Relations at the University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic, a prestigious institution known for its focus on diplomacy and economics. During his career, he became a prominent human rights advocate, serving as both a leader of Ecuador’s Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (APDH) and as the technical secretary of the Inter-American Platform for Human Rights, Democracy, and Development.

Since 2007, he has resided in the United Kingdom. Between 2010 and 2018, during President Rafael Correa’s administration, Narváez held diplomatic roles as Ecuador’s consul in London. Notably, he played a critical role in securing political asylum for Julian Assange in 2012, after the WikiLeaks founder faced potential extradition to the United States. During Assange’s seven-year confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Narváez lived alongside him for six years, managing diplomatic tensions and logistical challenges arising from the high-profile case. Thereafter, while Assange was imprisoned in the maximum-security Belmarsh Prison in London while the US-led lawfare against him continued, Narváez advocated tirelessly for the journalist’s release.

The April 13 Ecuadorian runoff election between the left-wing Citizen Revolution candidate Luisa González and the incumbent right-wing President Daniel Noboa takes place in a backdrop of soaring crime, economic collapse, and energy crisis and blackouts. Analysts trace the crisis to neoliberal policies post-2017, contrasting Western media’s reluctance to blame capitalism for Ecuador’s turmoil with its frequent attribution of similar crises to socialism in Venezuela.

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