QUITO, Ecuador, April 7 — Latin American governments, including regional heavyweight Brazil, rallied around Mexico today after its embassy in Ecuador was raided to arrest a...
Police officers stand guard as Ecuador ’s former Vice President Jorge Glas is expected to arrive at the La Roca Prison, after Ecuador ean forces raided Mexico ’s embassy to arrest Glas who had been convicted twice of corruption and who had been granted asylum by Mexican authorities, in Guayaquil, Ecuador April 7, 2024.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blasted the unusual diplomatic incursion and arrest as an “authoritarian” act as well as a breach of international law and Mexico’s sovereignty.Under international law, embassies are considered the sovereign territory of the country they represent. Video circulating on social media showed him being taken by police convoy to the airport in Quito, flanked by heavily armed soldiers. He then boarded a plane en route to a jail in Guayaquil, the Andean nation’s largest city.
Brazil’s government condemned Ecuador’s move as a “clear violation” of international norms prohibiting such a raid on a foreign embassy. She added that Glas had been granted asylum after an exhaustive analysis of the circumstances surrounding the accusations he faces. Colombian President Gustavo Petro argued in a post on X that Latin America “must keep alive the precepts of international law in the midst of the barbarism that is advancing in the world.”
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