Ecuadorean ex-president sentenced in shooting

By With Analysis from Monitor Correspondents Around the World; Edited by Clara Germani

September 3, 1981

Quito, Ecuador

Ecuador's Supreme Court sentenced former President Otto Arosemena Gomez to 30 days' correctional arrest for shooting and wounding a parliamentary deputy last year. During a debate in Congress, Mr. Arosemena, of the independent Democratic Institutionalist Coalition, pulled out a gun and shot his Conservative rival, Pablo Davalos Dilon, in the leg. The Supreme Court verdict over-ruled a previous lower-court acquittal.