ICE overrode judge’s decision blocking José Serrano’s removal.
Ex-Ecuadorian minister José Serrano, accused of aiding a cartel murder presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in 2023, has been deported by ICE.
Ecuadorian conservative Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated at a campaign rally in August 2023.
Fernando Villavicencio was reportedly shot in the head three times.
Supporters of the popular conservative, Fernando Villavicencio, managed to capture a suspect after the assassination.
A grenade was also found at the scene.
The criminal gang “Los Lobos,” based in Ecuador, later claimed responsibility for the assassination.
José Serrano’s removal took place even after a US judge blocked Serrano’s removal arguing he may be tortured if returned to the South American nation.
The New York Post reported:
“José Serrano, who served as Ecuador’s interior minister under leftist former President Rafael Correa, was deported Friday and promptly mocked by President Daniel Noboa as the newest ‘guest’ of the country’s notorious El Encuentro mega-prison.
‘We said it, we delivered. José Serrano, Rafael Correa’s Interior Minister, is the new guest at El Encuentro’, he wrote on X.”
Watch: Serrano arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
#URGENTE
Guayaquil, así fue el arribo del Ministro del Interior en la época del correismo, José Serrano.Visiblemente derrotado y bajo un fuerte operativo será trasladado a la Cárcel del Encuentro por el Caso del Magnicidio de Fernando Villavicencio y otras cuentas pendientes… pic.twitter.com/nHWHptGhUO
— We News (@wenewsec) August 29, 2026
“Noboa also took a shot at Correa, who ruled from 2007 to 2017 and lives with his family in Belgium, where he was granted asylum.
An Ecuadorian court convicted Correa in absentia in 2020 for receiving bribes for public contracts.”
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