Maduro calls the police operation on the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador a “fascist act”

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Madurothis Saturday called for a police operation at the Embassy of Mexico in Quitowhere Ecuadorian security agents entered by force on Friday night to arrest the former vice president Jorge Glasto whom the Mexican Executive granted political asylum.

“Venezuela raise your voice loudly to reject this fascist act against international law and expresses its total and absolute solidarity with the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador“, indicated the Chavista leader through X.

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This comment was released minutes after the Venezuelan government published a statement in which it repudiated the “excessive lack of modesty and common sense on the part of Ecuadorian authorities”.

“It is an act of barbarity, something never seen before Latin Americathe pro-Yankee right-wing government of Ecuador brutally violated international law, attacking the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador and kidnapping of a political asylum, as recognized by the Mexican government”, Maduro emphasized.

Venezuela reported that the Ecuadorian police “They illegally invaded and captured the former vice president Jorge Glasto whom the Mexican Government granted political asylum, as a result of the atrocious persecution of which he has been a victim victim”.

“All this constitutes an action that not even under the most atrocious dictatorships in the region were recorded (…), creating a worrying precedent for Ecuador and the world“Venezuela noted in its writing.

Ecuadorian police They scaled the walls of the Mexican diplomatic headquarters to capture glasswho is subject to a preventive detention order for a case of alleged corruption in which he is currently being accused, after having spent – between 2017 and 2022 – almost five years in prison for two convictions for crimes that he rejects, considering himself a victim. of political persecution.

Through social networks, López Obrador reported “The rape blatant to international law and the sovereignty of Mexico” and ordered to declare “the suspension of diplomatic relations with the Government of Ecuador”.

Source: Elcomercio

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