Mexico's president says his country is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

Updated 6:19 AM CDT, April 6, 2024

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The Mexican president has quickly moved to break off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president who had sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption charges.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador made the announcement Friday evening after Ecuadorian police forced their way into the embassy in the capital, Quito, to arrest Jorge Glas who has been residing there since December. Glas, arguably the most wanted man in Ecuador, has been convicted on bribery and corruption charges and Ecuadorian authorities are still investigating more allegations against him.

Police broke through the external doors of the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in the Ecuadorian capital and entered the main patio to get Glas.

“This is not possible. It cannot be. This is crazy,” Roberto Canseco, head of the Mexican consular section in Quito, told local press while standing outside the embassy. “I am very worried because they could kill him. There is no basis to do this. This is totally outside the norm.”



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[Warpy]

1. This is likely to be reseolved dipoomatically

after a few months of posturing by both sides, after which some sort of extradition agreement will be hammered out to avoid such unpleasantness in the future.

It looks like Glas has been accused of bribery and influence peddling. He's been acquitted of plagiarim in the past, sloppiness not found to be indictable.

[snot]

2. So Ecuador has now violated international law...

in the same way the UK/US did when Assange was removed from the Ecuadoran embassy in London.

[cstanleytech]

4. Ecuador revoked his asylum (probably because he was of no more use) and allowed him to be taken into custody I believe.

[cstanleytech]

3. Personally I think that the US should close the US embassy in Ecuador and expell all Ecuadorian diplomatic

personal from the US for this action.