QUITO — Ecuador’s Health Minister Ximena Garzon resigned Monday from President Guillermo Lasso’s government, following previous announcements that Economy Minister Simon Cueva would step down.
“I am deeply grateful for the opportunity you have given me and I am proud to have helped with you in the COVID-19 pandemic,” Garzon said in a resignation letter to Lasso noted through Reuters.
Ecuador’s Secretary of the Civil Service, Iván Correa, spoke of Cueva’s imminent departure in an interview with local television channel Teleamazonas last Monday.
The closet adjustments followed more than two weeks of protests, he said, without explaining the exact link.
Correa’s workplace and economy ministry did not respond to requests for comment.
Cueva’s role included that of finance minister. Lasso is a former conservative banker.
Tomorrow the changes will be announced, Correa said in the interview.
“Definitely the adjustments are coming,” he said. The president is comparing all those adjustments and what is certain is that tomorrow they will be announced, adding notoriously in the Ministry of Finance. “
Other ministers will also leave the government, Correa said, specifying which ones.
“There are other adjustments also within the cabinet that will be announced until the president’s afternoon,” he said.
The announcement follows weeks of protests that erupted in Ecuador in June to demand reduced fuel costs and limits on the expansion of the mining and oil industries. Organized by indigenous leaders, the protests left at least 8 other people dead and disrupted oil production.
A pact to get out of the crisis signed on Thursday between the government and indigenous leaders.
Lasso appointed Cueva last year and assigned him the task of reducing the budget deficit, which he hopes to reduce by $2 billion this year.
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