Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is severing diplomatic
relations with Ecuador following a police raid on the Mexican embassy in
Quito, Ecuador’s capital, where they arrested former Vice President
Jorge Glas, who had sought political asylum in the embassy after being
indicted on corruption charges.
AMLO announced Friday night that
Ecuadorian police raided the Mexican embassy to arrest Glas. He has been
hiding in the embassy since December as diplomatic relations between
the two countries deteriorated.
By order of the president of Ecuador 🇪🇨, Daniel Noboa, the Ecuadorian army stormed the Mexican 🇲🇽 Embassy and arrested former socialist vice president Jorge Glas, who was about to escape to Mexico through a safe conduct granted by López Obrador.
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“This
is not possible. It cannot be. This is crazy,” Roberto Canseco, head of
the Mexican consular section in Quito, told local press, as quoted by AP News.
Canseco
continued, “I am very worried because they could kill him. There is no
basis to do this. This is totally outside the norm.”
Glas, one of the most wanted men in the South American country, was recently convicted of bribery and corruption.
AMLO called Glas’ arrest an “authoritarian act” and “a flagrant violation of international law and the sovereignty of Mexico.”
Hours before the raid, Mexico granted Glas political asylum – something the Ecuadorian government viewed as illegal.
Ecuador’s
Presidency wrote in a statement, “Ecuador is a sovereign nation, and we
are not going to allow any criminal to stay free.”
On social
media platform X, Alicia Bárcena, Mexico’s foreign relations secretary,
said her team will take Glas’ detainment to the International Court of
Justice “to denounce Ecuador’s responsibility for violations of
international law.”
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