Mexico demands “guarantees” for diplomats in Ecuador after embassy attack

Mexico This Saturday he demanded “guarantees” for the departure of his diplomatic staff Ecuadorafter the police attack on its embassy in Quito the day before, culminating in the arrest of the former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas refugee in that place and wanted by the justice system in his country.

The shocking operation, without similar precedents in the world, led the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador immediately sever diplomatic relations with Ecuador for what he described as “flagrant violation international law and sovereignty Mexico”.

READ TOO: Former Vice President of Ecuador Jorge Glas transferred to La Roca maximum security prison

This Saturday, the Secretariat of foreign relations Mexican demanded “the necessary guarantees on the part Ecuador by the departure of Mexican (diplomatic) personnel”, according to a statement.

Images captured by AFP on Friday night show several Ecuadorian uniform armed and with a battering ram in front of the embassy. At least one of them climbed the fence that surrounds the building to enter and arrest glasswho faces corruption charges and who Mexico granted asylum that same Friday, after protecting him for months.

The Mexican embassy in Quito was surrounded by police on Saturday morning and The country’s flag was removed from the flagpole in the courtyard, noted an AFP photographer.

The night before, Mexico’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcenatold the media that he was waiting for a response from Ecuador send a plane to evacuate its diplomats. “We are analyzing what is the best way to obtain our team” and their families, he said.

He Ecuadorian government has not yet commented on this Saturday.

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“Brutal”

Glas, vice-president of the socialist party Rafael Corrêa between 2013 and 2017, he had a preventive arrest order for alleged embezzlement in public works contracted after the devastating earthquake in ecuadorian coast in 2016.

This morning the 54-year-old politician left the judicial facility where he was detained, in the middle of a security operation with several armored vehiclesnoted an AFP photographer.

He was transferred to a maximum security prison in Guayaquil known as ‘The rock‘, according to the prison authority.

Mexico described the operation as a “brutal irruption” and reported “Physical violence” against the mission leader Roberto Canseco, who was subdued on the ground by a man in uniform, according to images from Ecuadorian television. The diplomat is “fine” like the rest of the delegation, said Chancellor Bárcena.

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboadefended the measure alleging a “abuse of immunities and privileges” granted to the diplomatic mission.

“The national government defends the National sovereigntywithout allowing anyone to interfere in the country’s internal affairs“, said the presidency of Ecuador in a series of messages on the social network X at midnight.

Mexico announced that it will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice. The convention of Vienna guarantees the inviolability of an embassy’s territory.

Noboa “broke all the behavior patterns of the traditional diplomacy”he told AFP Roberto Beltrán Zambranoprofessor of conflict management at the Private Technical University of Storein Ecuador.

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Climbing

The diplomatic crisis began on Wednesday, when López Obrador raised a parallel between the violence that marked the 2023 Ecuadorian presidential campaign, during which the candidate was assassinated Fernando Villavicencioand the crime registered in Mexico ahead of the June 2 elections.

According to the Mexican president, the crime of Villavicencio Created a “rarefied atmosphere of violence” which caused the fall in the left-wing candidate’s polls Luisa González and the recovery of Noboawho was the winner.

Harsh criticism of the former president belt (2007-2017), Villavicencio became known for his denunciations about the strengthening of drug trafficking.

The government of Noboa considered that these comments “offend the Ecuadorian State” and expelled the Mexican ambassador Raquel Serurwho has not yet left the country.

In response, Mexico granted political asylum on Friday to glasswho remained sheltered at his diplomatic headquarters in Quito since December, alleging political persecution against him.

Ecuador described the decision as “illicit”And surrounded the embassy with police as a sign of“protest”. That night he launched the operation that resulted in the capture of the former vice president and the diplomatic rupture.

READ TOO: President of the Andean Parliament warns that Ecuador is entering a “serious international conflict”

Regional reactions

The governments of Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Honduras -everyone on the left- condemned this Saturday’s operation.

“It constitutes an action that not even in the most atrocious dictatorships in the region, such as that of Augusto Pinochet in Pepper any Jorge Rafael Videla in ArgentinaI registered”Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“All my solidarity with the president and friend (André Manuel) López Obrador“, said the Brazilian president in X Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvawhose government condemned the action “in the firmest terms.”

The former president beltexiled in Belgium since 2017 and sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for corruption, said Glas was attacked during his detention.

“Jorge has difficulty walking because he was hit. This is all crazy”Correa wrote on the social network X.

Source: Elcomercio

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