Galo Lara

Tito Galo Lara Yépez is an Ecuadorian politician who represented Los Ríos Province in the National Assembly of Ecuador from 2009 to 2013. Lara was convicted of abetting the murder of a couple and their four-year-old child in 2013, and sentenced to ten years in prison by Ecuadorian authorities. Lara fled to Panama, and was eventually declared innocent with his trial being considered a political persecution campaign by the Rafael Correa government.

Biography Lara was born in Quevedo on January 4, 1968. He was implicated in the death of a woman in Quevedo in 1990, but fled the country before he could go on trial. In 2007, Lara was elected as an assemblyman for Los Rios province in the Patriotic Society Party. He was re-elected in 2008 following the 2008 Ecuadorian constitutional referendum, and stayed as an assemblyman until 2013. In 2012, a federal prosecutor ordered Lara to remain in the country until the murder investigation was over. Panama granted asylum to Lara, but revoked his asylum in June 2014. The Ecuadorian government demanded Lara's extradition back to Ecuador, but Lara instead sought to stay as a refugee. That year, a new court stated that Lara had been accused as part of a political persecution campaign by then-president Rafael Correa. Lara and Llanos received compensation for the campaign in 2021 by Guillermo Lasso.