decides to focus on arresting an irrelevant ex-opposition member

Jorge Glas is still close to Rafael Correa, he was expelled from Lenin Moreno's government because he refused to participate in the selling the country to the US. Noboa is trying to intimidate the Correaistas and appease his own supporters, all to divert attention from the fact that Noboa is a useless US puppet who is doing nothing to stop his country falling into a civil war against the drug cartels.