Ecuadorian oresidential plane emergency landing at Washington

AFP – The plane of the president of Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, in which he was traveling with several of his ministers, made an emergency landing on Saturday in Washington, where the president finished an official visit, but all “are fine,” reported the Ecuadorian communication secretariat.

“The presidential plane nad a mechanical failure a few minutes after taking off from Washington DC, for which it had to make an emergency landing,” said the portfolio when expanding its statemen.

“Moreno and all the occupants of the plane are well and will return to Ecuador in the next few hours,” he added.

The president, whose four-year term ends on May 24, fulfilled an official agenda during the last week in the US capital.

He highlighted a meeting with Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an entity that granted a loan of $6.5 billion to the South American country last September. In addition to meetings with officials of the government of the new US President, Joe Biden.