Mexico is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raided its embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas. <\/p>\n
Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Ecuador\u2019s capital Quito on Friday night to arrest the <\/strong>former vice president, who is seeking asylum there, an escalation of tensions that Mexico decried as \u201can outrage against international law.\u201d <\/p>\n Video from the scene showed police officers massing around the embassy, some armed. Embassies are generally considered as protect spaces under diplomatic norms. <\/p>\n A rift between the two Latin American countries had been growing since Mexico\u2019s decision to grant political asylum to Glas, vice president under leftist ex-President Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017. <\/p>\n Convicted twice on corruption charges, Glas says he is the subject of political persecution and had been sheltering inside the embassy. <\/p>\n But on Friday, Mexican president Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, on his official X account, said he had been informed that \u201cpolice from Ecuador forcibly entered\u201d the Mexican embassy and took Glas \u2013 who \u201cwas a refugee and processing asylum because of the persecution and harassment he faces.\u201d <\/p>\n A statement released by Ecuador\u2019s government on X also confirmed the arrest. <\/p>\n Glas was \u201csentenced to imprisonment by the Ecuadorian justice system,\u201d the statement from Ecuador\u2019s government read, and was \u201carrested tonight and placed under the orders of the competent authorities.\u201d He had been granted diplomatic asylum \u201ccontrary to the conventional legal framework,\u201d the government said. <\/p>\n \u201cIt is barbarism,\u201d Canseco added. \u201cIt is impossible for them to violate the diplomatic premises as they have done.\u201d <\/p>\n Mexico plans to lodge a complaint with the International Court of Justice to denounce the Ecuadorian police\u2019s actions, the spokesperson for Mexico\u2019s Secretary of Foreign Affairs added. <\/p>\n Mexico\u2019s Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Alicia B\u00e1rcena, said there had been no prior contact with Ecuador\u2019s foreign ministry about the arrest and that Canseco was physically attacked during the arrest. <\/p>\n Adding to current tensions was Lopez Obrador\u2019s apparent criticism of Ecuador\u2019s recent elections, saying the 2023 run-off vote took place in a \u201cvery strange\u201d manner and suggesting that presidential candidates had used the media, presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio\u2019s assassination and overall violence in their favor while campaigning. <\/p>\n The rift resulted in a series of diplomatic provocations this week, that also included Ecuador rejecting Mexico\u2019s ambassador to the country, who was declared \u201cpersona non grata.\u201d <\/p>\n\n Mexico is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raided its embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas. Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Ecuador\u2019s capital Quito on Friday night to arrest the former vice president, who is seeking asylum there, an escalation of tensions that Mexico decried as \u201can <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17655","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\/17655","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=17655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}