Fernando Balda
Fernando Marcelo Balda Flores is an Ecuadorian politician who claimed that he had been abducted in July 2012 in Bogotá, Colombia, to which he had fled because in 2009 he had dropped his support for the Ecuadorian government, had changed from being a member of parliament for Alianza País to an opposition member of the Patriotic Society Party, and had been accused of involvement in a failed coup in 2010. Balda was deported from Colombia to Ecuador in October 2012 to serve a prison sentence. As of 2019, Ecuador is asking for its former president Rafael Correa to be extradited from Belgium for involvement in the purported abduction.
Balda is married and has four children.
