{"id":17643,"date":"2024-04-06T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T12:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/diplomatic-spat-grows-between-ecuador-and-mexico\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T12:46:10","slug":"diplomatic-spat-grows-between-ecuador-and-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/diplomatic-spat-grows-between-ecuador-and-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic spat grows between Ecuador\u00a0and Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            A rift between Mexico and\u00a0Ecuador is growing, with a series of diplomatic provocations this week that culminated in Ecuador rejecting Mexico\u2019s ambassador to the country,<em> <\/em>and Mexico announcing that it would offer asylum to a wanted Ecuadorean politician.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Mexican Ambassador Raquel Serur Smeke was declared \u201cpersona non grata\u201d in Ecuador on Thursday after Mexico\u2019s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador appeared to criticize Ecuador\u2019s recent elections.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Ecuador\u2019s 2023 run-off vote took place in a \u201cvery strange\u201d manner, Lopez Obrador said, suggesting that presidential candidates used the media, candidate Fernando Villavicencio\u2019s assassination, and overall violence in their favor while campaigning.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            In a statement posted on X,\u00a0Ecuador\u2019s Foreign Ministry called Lopez Obrador\u2019s comments \u201cunfortunate\u201d and said the country is still mourning Villavicencio\u2019s assassination. It also\u00a0reiterated its focus on ensuring \u201crespect for the dignity and sovereignty of the\u00a0Ecuadorian State\u201d and \u201cnon-intervention in the internal affairs of other States.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Diplomatic relations are expected to remain open between the two countries. However, a press release by the Mexican Foreign Ministry on Friday lamented the Ecuadorean decision as \u201cdisproportionate\u201d and announced that Mexico had decided to grant political asylum to Ecuador\u2019s former Vice President Jorge David Glas Espinel \u2013 a move that Ecuador\u2019s Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfield quickly slammed as \u201cinterference in internal affairs.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Glas served under leftist ex-President Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017. Convicted twice on corruption charges, Glas says that he is the subject of political persecution, and has been sheltering inside the Mexican Embassy in Quito, according to Reuters.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rift between Mexico and\u00a0Ecuador is growing, with a series of diplomatic provocations this week that culminated in Ecuador rejecting Mexico\u2019s ambassador to the country, and Mexico announcing that it would offer asylum to a wanted Ecuadorean politician. Mexican Ambassador Raquel Serur Smeke was declared \u201cpersona non grata\u201d in Ecuador on Thursday after Mexico\u2019s President <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}