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Noboa travels to the United States for “personal matters” amid the crisis with Mexico

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaannounced a three-day trip to Miami (USA) “to attend to matters of a personal nature” in the midst of a crisis with Mexico after the police attack on its embassy in Quito last Friday to arrest George glassformer vice president of Rafael beltwho received asylum and who was under arrest order.

In a decree, Noboa He informed that he will be absent from the country from this Wednesday until Friday, the 13th, and that he will only be accompanied by his head of security.

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The Ecuadorian president, born in 1986 in MiamiHe has traveled frequently to that city since assuming the leadership of the State, in November 2023, especially due to the birth, in January, in that same city, of his third child, the second with his wife. Lavinia Valbonesi.

The 36-year-old ruler also went to U.S after his official trip to Spain To participate in the Fiturthe international tourism fair of Madridwhere Ecuador served as guest country of honor.

Likewise, he recently also moved to Canada To participate in the PDACthe largest fair in the world in the mining sector, with the aim of attracting investments for the development of mining projects in the country, which has aroused strong opposition from the indigenous movement.

Noboa started this new journey to U.S While the Organization of American States (OAS) approved a resolution that strongly condemns the attack on the Embassy of Mexico in Quitowhere only the Ecuadorian delegation voted against.

This resolution also called for respect Diplomatic Asylum Convention which the Ecuadorian Government considers to have been infringed by Mexico in granting asylum to Glas, who has two sentences for corruption pending conclusion and a new process underway where he is accused of alleged embezzlement (misappropriation of funds).

The former vice president, who was one of the strong men of the Government of beltalways rejected the convictions and accusations, declaring himself politically persecuted and a victim of ‘legal war‘ (use of the judicial apparatus against political opponents), something that the Ecuadorian government vehemently denies.

The irruption of the Ecuadorian Police into the diplomatic headquarters of the Mexico led to the president’s government Andrés Manuel López Obrador break off relations with Ecuador and announce that it will denounce the Ecuadorian State before the International Court of Justice in The Hague considering its sovereignty and international law violated.

Source: Elcomercio

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