Rafael Correa
President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017
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| 2024 | A former cellmate alleged that Rafael Correa had video call conversations with drug trafficker Leandro Norero while Correa was President of Ecuador, reportedly discussing the release of Jorge Glas. |
| October 9 2024 | The U.S. State Department banned Rafael Correa from entering the United States on accusations of corruption. |
| April 7 2020 | The Criminal Court of the National Court of Justice found Correa guilty of aggravated passive bribery and sentenced him to 8 years in prison for leading a corruption network that received 'undue contributions' between 2012 and 2016. |
| February 10 2020 | Correa's trial in absentia on bribery charges began. |
| April 11 2019 | Correa's successor Lenin Moreno withdrew Julian Assange's asylum, leading Correa to call Moreno a traitor. His Facebook account with over 1.5 million followers was blocked on the same day for disclosing personal data about the 'INA Papers' case. |
| 2018 | Correa led the 'No' campaign during the Ecuadorian referendum and popular consultation. |
| 2018 | Correa began hosting the weekly political talk show 'Conversation with Correa' on RT Spanish. |
| July 2018 | Interpol rejected the Ecuador-issued arrest warrant against Correa, characterizing it as 'obviously a political matter'. |
| July 3 2018 | An Ecuadorian judge ordered a warrant for his arrest related to the alleged kidnapping of political opponent Fernando Balda. |
| June 18 2018 | Ecuador's highest court ordered Rafael Correa to be included in an investigation concerning a 2012 botched kidnapping of opposition lawmaker Fernando Balda. |
| March 2018 | Received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina. |
| 2017 | Ended his presidency and moved to Belgium with his family. |
| December 7 2017 | Received an honorary doctorate from Université Grenoble Alpes in France. |
| May 2017 | Received honorary doctorates from the University of Havana in Cuba and the National University of Quilmes in Argentina. |
| 2015 | Received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. |
| December 2 2015 | Received an honorary doctorate from Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France. |
| 2014 | Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Santiago, Chile. |
| April 23 2014 | Received an honorary doctorate from the Universitat de Barcelona in Spain. |
| 2013 | Won the general election for a third presidential term. |
| October 30 2013 | Received an honorary doctorate from the People's Friendship University of Russia. |
| March 16 2012 | Received an honorary doctorate from Bahçeşehir University in Turkey. |
| February 28 2012 | Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Chiclayo in Peru. |
| December 3 2010 | Received the Faces and Masks Democracy Prize from the UBA Cultural Center of Buenos Aires, and also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires. |
| November 2010 | Received the Great Necklace of the Ecuadorian Federation of Soccer in gratitude for the expedition of the Law of the Sport. |
| June 12 2010 | Awarded the Medal of Honor in the Grade of Grand Cross, the highest honour of the Congress of Peru. |
| April 2010 | Received the Prize for Exceptional Academic Achievement 2009 from the University of Illinois. |
| April 23 2010 | Received an honorary doctorate in Economic and Social Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. |
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