Ecuadorian police break into Mexican embassy in Quito
Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday evening the country will break diplomatic ties with Ecuador
AP
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Police break into Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador, on Friday. PHOTO: AP
Quito, 6 April
Mexico's
president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday evening the country will
break diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican embassy
in Quito.
The announcement came after
Ecuadorian police officers forcibly broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito,
detaining former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who was seeking
political asylum there, as a diplomatic rift between the two countries deepened.
Glas, arguably the most wanted man
in Ecuador, faces investigations of corruption, bribery and more. The police
broke the external doors of the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in the
Ecuadorian capital and entered the main patio. “Ecuador is a sovereign nation
and we are not going to allow any criminal to stay free,” wrote Ecuador's
Presidency in a statement Friday night.
López Obrador fired back calling
Glas' detention an “authoritarian act” and “a flagrant violation of
international law and the sovereignty of Mexico."
Alicia Bárcena, Mexico's secretary
of foreign relations, added that a number of diplomats suffered injuries in the
incident and said it violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Experts watching the arrest pointed
out the act was a bold violation of the Vienna Conventions on Consular
Relations, something that is likely to put a firm wedge between the governments
of Mexico and Ecuador. “This is not possible, it cannot be, this is crazy,”
said Roberto Canseco, head of the Mexican consular section in Quito, outside
the embassy.
Asked about the situation of former
Vice President Glas and if he was apprehended by public forces, he stated: “I
understand that yes, I am very worried because they could kill him; there is no
basis to do this, this is totally outside the norm.”
Ecuador's foreign ministry and
Ecuador's ministry of the interior did not immediately respond to a request for
comment from The Associated Press. The Mexican embassy in Quito remained under
heavy police guard late Friday.
A day earlier, tensions between the
two countries escalated after Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
made statements that Ecuador considered “very unfortunate” about the last
elections in which the Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa won. In reaction, the
Ecuadorian government declared the Mexican ambassador persona non grata.
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