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Lula offers solidarity with AMLO amid the crisis with Ecuador

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvathis Saturday conveyed its solidarity with the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obradoramid the diplomatic conflict with Ecuador due to the invasion of the Ecuadorian Police at the Embassy of Mexico in Quito.

“All my solidarity with the president and friend @lopezobradorstated the Brazilian progressive leader in a message published on his social networks after Mexico broke off relations with Ecuador for the police operation to arrest the former Ecuadorian vice president George glass inside the diplomatic headquarters.

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Just before the reaction of Lulathe Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Brazil released a statement in which he condemned, “in the firmest terms”O “reprehensible” operation carried out by the Police after Mexico granted political asylum to glass.

The measure of “The Ecuadorian government constitutes serious precedentwhich must be object of vigorous repudiation, whatever the justification for its implementation.“, according to the note from the Chancellery.

For the Brazilian government, the police operation violated both the American Convention on Diplomatic Asylum such as Vienna Convention about Diplomatic relationswhich provides for the inviolability of diplomatic missions.

The Police of Ecuador invaded the embassy headquarters on Friday Mexico in Quito and stopped glassformer vice president during the presidential term of Rafael Corrêa (2007-2017) on the same day that the Aztec Government granted him political asylum.

glassprosecuted for alleged embezzlement of funds from the province of Manabi After the 2016 earthquake, he entered the Mexican embassy last December and shortly after requested asylum.

Source: Elcomercio

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