{"id":222436,"date":"2023-05-26T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=222436"},"modified":"2023-05-26T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T04:17:09","slug":"ecuador-president-lasso-undergoes-successful-prostate-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=222436","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador President Lasso undergoes &#8216;successful&#8217; prostate operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2023\/05\/26\/image-127458-1685073714.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>QUITO, May 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso underwent a &#8220;successful&#8221; prostate operation in the United States, his communications team said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 67-year-old, who is battling to keep his job and faces snap elections in August, &#8220;underwent an intervention on the prostate&#8221; at the Houston Methodist Hospital, the press team said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had traveled to the US on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lasso was said to be already recovering back in his hospital room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is due to return to Ecuador on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lasso issued a decree dissolving the opposition-controlled legislature last week, a day after it opened an impeachment trial against him, having accused him of allowing corruption in state-owned companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, the National Electoral Council announced the elections would be on Aug 20, with a second-round run-off on Oct 15 if needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lasso had already survived an impeachment attempt last June when his detractors in parliament failed to secure the two-thirds majority needed to remove him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is due to run for reelection, but his popularity is at a record low of 10 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This political instability comes as Ecuador is enduring a spike in violence related to drug trafficking in the South American country and widespread anger over the rising cost of living. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUITO, May 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso underwent a &#8220;successful&#8221; prostate operation in the United States, his communications team said. The 67-year-old, who is battling to keep his job and faces snap elections in August, &#8220;underwent an intervention on the prostate&#8221; at the Houston Methodist Hospital, the press team said in a statement. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222438,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222436\/revisions\/222438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}