Daniel Noboa guarantees that he does not regret the attack on the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaassured that he does not regret having ordered the assault on the Embassy of Mexico in Quito to stop Jorge Glasformer vice president of Rafael Corrêa (2007-2017), to whom the Mexican Government granted asylum hours earlier.

“I don’t regret“Noboa stated, in an interview given last week to the Australian channel SBS and broadcast this Monday, the president’s first interaction with the press since the beginning of this crisis with Mexico.

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Faced with the almost unanimous condemnation of the international community for breaking the inviolability of a diplomatic headquarters, Noboa admitted that “It was a very difficult decision to make.”, but he did so because his government considers that Mexico was the first to violate international conventions.

“It is first a violation by the Mexican Government, followed by another violation, but we had to act, we had to make a decision, because there was an escape plan that we were aware of.”, declared Noboa.

“We condemn the fact that some governments use their embassies under the façade of a political refuge that is, in reality, impunity.is to save criminals from their sentences” he added.

The Ecuadorian ruler recalled that the Caracas Asylum Convention stresses that asylum cannot be granted to a person prosecuted in ordinary courts for ordinary crimes.

The former vice-president was under arrest warrant and placed in pre-trial detention in connection with the reconstruction work for the strong earthquake that occurred in 2016, where he is accused of alleged embezzlement (misappropriation of public funds).

He also had to return to prison to finish serving an eight-year prison sentence for two convictions for bribery and illicit association, of which he had already served almost five years when at the end of 2022 he was released thanks to a controversial judicial resolution of a precautionary measure. measures. .

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“In this case Jorge Glas I had a sentence and had to be in prison“, reiterated Noboa, for whom Glas “got a fair trial”.

However, the former vice president, who held the position during the presidential term of Rafael Corrêa and at the beginning of the administration Lenin Moreno (2017-2021) always rejected the accusations against him and declared himself a victim of ‘legal war‘ (use of the judicial apparatus against political opponents).

Glas’s detention inside the Mexican Embassy in Quito was declared illegal and arbitrary by a court of Ecuador last Friday, but he was arrested because he had not yet served his sentence for Bribery casein which Correa was also convicted, and for illicit association in Odebrecht case.

“I want to be seen as someone fair”

Asked if he did so to give a heavy-handed image just days before the holding of a referendum he called on reforms in security, investments, justice and employment, Noboa commented that he wants to be seen as “someone who is fair, not necessarily like a tough guy”.

“If Glas had escaped using embassy vehicles and Mexican government planes, I would have looked very weak to everyone. Now that I’ve done it, they think I’m pretty tough. It is difficult to please everyone, but the majority of the country’s population is happy with this decision“Noboa stated.

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Regarding how he intends to resolve the crisis with Mexico, the Ecuadorian president said he will try to have lunch with AMLO.

“I’m going to invite López Obrador over for ceviche, and we can probably have some tacos and talk, too, when he’s ready.”, he stated.

The irruption of state forces into the Mexican Embassy led the López Obrador Government to break relations with Ecuador and denounce it to the International Court of Justice in Have it considering that its sovereignty and also international law were violated.

Source: Elcomercio

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