Next Friday, December 17, at the University of Pennsylvania, United States, students and activists will hold a sit-in in rejection of the hiring of María Paula Romo as a professor at this University. She has a complaint for an alleged crime against humanity for the repression of October 2019.
Romo was censored and dismissed by the Ecuadorian Assembly as a government minister accused of crimes against humanity, says the convocation.
About 11,000 people requested the dismissal of the former government minister, who serves as a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.
The petition, which was created on August 26, 2021, calls for the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies to separate María Paula Romo, who is a visiting researcher for the fall semester of 2021, from its program.
For her part, Romo called the request an “unsubstantiated political attack” in a statement emailed to The Daily Pennsylvanian on November 30.
In addition, she assured that neither in Ecuador nor in any part of the world does she face a single trial for any crime, despite the fact that there are already several complaints and investigations against her in the country.
This request, according to the organizers of the march, was rejected “because sufficient reasons were not found to terminate Romo’s post.”
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