Ecuador has not yet received official notification about asylum from Mexico for the former vice president

Ecuador has not yet received an official notification of Mexico on the granting of political asylum to Jorge Glaswho was vice-president of Rafael belt (2007-2017) and at the beginning of the Government of Lenin Moreno (2017-2021), and which is processed in a process that investigates alleged misappropriation of resources (embezzlement).

“Official notification of asylum granting has not yet been received“, a source of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility when consulted by EFE about the decision to Mexicowhich occurred one day after Ecuador declared the ambassador in Quito, Raquel Serur.

The former vice president glass entered the Mexican Embassy, in Quitolast December and shortly afterwards requested asylum in that country.

glasswho was released at the end of 2022 after serving five years in prison for two convictions for bribery and illicit association of eight and six years in prison, respectively, is being prosecuted for alleged embezzlement (embezzlement) in case ‘Reconstruction‘from the coastal province of Manabí after the 2016 earthquake.

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Asylum

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) in Mexico In a statement this Friday, he noted that “After an exhaustive analysis of the information received, the Government of Mexico decided to grant political asylum to Mr. Jorge David Glas Espinelwhich is currently in Mexican Embassy in Quito”.

Likewise, he noted that this decision will be officially communicated to the Ecuadorian authorities together with the request for them to grant the respective safe passage, in accordance with the Diplomatic Asylum Convention of 1954, international treaty of which Mexico It is Ecuador They are States Parties.

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Not grateful person”

On Thursday, Ecuador’s Itamaraty reported that it invoked the principle of “non-intervention” in the internal affairs of another country and the Vienna convention to take the diplomatic measure that implies the country’s departure from the country. Serur after the president’s statements Andrés Manuel López Obradorabout the assassination of the former Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio and the apparent electoral consequences of this crime.

Furthermore, he indicated that the country is still in “mourning” over the crime shot by Villavicenciooccurred in August last year, when the then presidential candidate was leaving an electoral political rally in a busy neighborhood in the north zone Quito in broad daylight.

The Mexican president commented on the consequences of the murder of Villavicencio in the context of last year’s presidential elections in Ecuador, which gave victory to the current president, businessman Daniel Noboa.

López Obrador said that, in his opinion, Villavicencio’s crime mainly harmed Luisa Gonzálezthe presidential candidate of the Citizen Revolution movement, led by the former governor Rafael Corrêa (2007-2017), follower of the call Socialism of the 21st century.

For the Mexican president, he guaranteed that there is social responsibility in the work environment situations in violence and said that the media does not escape this either.

“In the context of the recent and very unfortunate statements by the President of Mexico”the Ecuadorian Government “decided “declare ‘persona non grata’ to the ambassador of Mexico in Quito”invoking “article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” Ecuador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Thursday.

“The country continues to face transnational organized crime that threatens the State, its democratic institutions and its population” he added.

Source: Elcomercio

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