What scenarios and implications arise in the diplomatic conflict between Ecuador and Mexico?

The diplomatic crisis between Ecuador It is Mexico The situation continues four days after the unprecedented operation by Ecuadorian police on the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in Quito to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas. During his usual morning conference, this Tuesday, the 9th, the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) He assured that although he will not act “by force” against the South American country, he will seek to resolve the impasse “by law”.

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The Aztec ruler’s words come after his government announced that it will appeal to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to obtain a decision on the incident that caused the rupture of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Meanwhile, Ecuador anticipated Mexico and to the secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS) himself to request an extraordinary meeting in Washington.

“It is sad when we talk about these realities because they violate principles consecrated and accepted by States in the international order. “This leads to anarchy and what we want is to enforce the rules to continue building a world in peace and harmony,” he says. The trade Rafael Casado, director of the International Relations course at UPC.

Although the Mexican head of state has been grateful for the support received from the international community, this Tuesday AMLO criticized the “ambiguity” of the United States and Canada, Mexico’s two main economic partners in the region, in his statements about what happened. at the embassy in Quito last Friday night.

The US State Department issued a bulletin calling for reconciliation between Ecuador and Mexico, but did not condemn the “invasion” of the headquarters, according to López Obrador; while Canada “went to the extreme” in describing the incident as an “apparent violation” of the Vienna Convention.

“We do not allow this, we do not accept it,” said López Obrador.

Glas was held in a maximum security prison in Guayaquil. (FLYER/)

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Panama, the United Kingdom, Spain, Uruguay and Peru, among other governments, also condemned the irruption of police forces and called on both countries to respect international treaties to seek to repair their relations as quickly as possible.

Meanwhile, Jorge Glas, who was vice-president during the last part of Rafael Correa’s government, was declared stable and returned to the maximum security prison where he is held after being forcibly removed from the diplomatic headquarters. Let us remember that on Monday, the 8th, he was rushed to a hospital in Guayaquil after suffering decompensation.

AMLO criticized the “ambiguity” of the United States and Canada.

Mexico This Tuesday, the 9th, he ratified his intention to take the case to supranational organizations. On Monday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena, had announced that she would take the complaint to the ICJ and that her government was preparing a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, asking for a conviction against the Noboa government .

“The important thing is that the legal course is being applied, where each party has the right to resort to the tools available. It is these entities that will resolve the situation. This shows the importance of the international legal system. Mistakes can be made, but work must be done to continue strengthening the international legal regime. The ICJ is an international body to which they appealed at the time Peru It is Pepperand who made a decision that helped solve a historical problem”, says Casado.

The OAS will hold an extraordinary meeting this Tuesday to analyze the impasse between Mexico and Ecuador. (SAUL LOEB/)

The Chancellor Ecuadorian Gabriela Sommerfeld assured that Mexico first violated the Vienna Convention and asylum, and did not give concrete answers to the Andean country regarding its requests regarding the former vice president.

“As a diplomatic channel, we sent all the documentation that demonstrated the situation of the then guest, they called, and then the asylum seeker so that they could not proceed because it was not appropriate,” said the minister before ensuring that Mexico would not give “a response positive”” to your requests.

“The case must be analyzed very carefully”, warns Casado.

The expert recalls that political asylum has been a tool present in Latin American agreements since 1928, when the Havana Convention was signed, in which mechanisms were already sought to protect and guarantee human rights, especially life and freedom.

“Then came those in Montevideo in 1933 and 1939, and finally the one in Caracas in 1954. The Caracas Convention says that asylum must be extended to any persecuted person, in order to protect their life and integrity. Now, speaking of the 1961 Vienna Convention, it points out that diplomatic facilities are inviolable, but it also indicates that an important responsibility of the State granting asylum is to comply with the legal standards of the other country. In other words, respecting the rules, due process and legal situation of that country. That is why the Ecuadorian chancellor claims that former president Glas was accepted by the Mexican embassy despite having two court sentences for corruption in his country”, explains the analyst.

Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Gabriela Sommerfeld, assured that Mexico was the first to violate international agreements by granting asylum to Glas.

Glas, 54, was prosecuted by Ecuadorian justice and received two sentences for corruption: one of six years in prison for the Odebrecht case and another of eight years for receiving bribes in exchange for authorization for public works. Furthermore, at the beginning of the year he was again summoned to court in a case of alleged embezzlement of funds intended for the reconstruction of the provinces of Manabí and Esmeraldas, affected by a strong earthquake in 2016.

For Chancellor Sommerfeld, Mexico recognizes that this will be the first step towards reestablishing its relations. The conflict “is resolved at a table, where both parties have to tell the truth and based on that truth they have to start resolving and rebuilding things”, said the minister.

“But Ecuador received a provocation, repeated non-compliance and even more serious is the interference in the statements made by the president of Mexico (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) where he questions the legitimacy of the last elections, questions our free and democratic elections and, above all, questions a mourning that we carry to this day”, recalled Sommerfeld in reference to last week’s statements in which AMLO referred to the death of candidate Fernando Villavicencio and which led to the expulsion of Mexican ambassador Raquel Serur last Thursday.

Source: Elcomercio