Mexico suspends diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raid embassy [View all]

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Source: The Guardian

Mexico suspends diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raid embassy

Ecuadorian police forcibly enter the embassy in Quito to detain former vice-president Jorge Glas

Guardian staff and agencies
Sat 6 Apr 2024 06.38 BST

Mexico has suspended diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police forcibly broke into the country’s embassy in Quito to detain former Ecuadorian vice-president Jorge Glas, deepening a diplomatic rift between the two countries.

Glas, convicted twice for corruption, had been holed up in the embassy in Quito since seeking political asylum in December, arguing he was being persecuted by the attorney general’s office.

Police forcefully entered Mexico’s embassy before making the arrest, the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, posted on X.

“Ecuador is a sovereign nation and we are not going to allow any criminal to stay free,” Ecuador’s presidency wrote in a statement on Friday night.

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