2024-04-06 08:15:35
Mexico declared severance of diplomatic relations with Ecuador, which raided its embassy on the 5th (local time). Ecuadorian police forcibly took away former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glass, who had been staying at the embassy after applying for asylum in Mexico.
According to Reuters and AFP, on this day, Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena announced through X, “We have decided to immediately sever diplomatic relations with Ecuador.”
Ecuadorian police raided the Mexican embassy in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, this evening and arrested former Vice President Glass.
Former Vice President Glass, who was released in April 2022 after 4 years and 5 months after being sentenced to 6 years in prison for bribery, applied for asylum in Mexico when an arrest warrant was issued on another corruption charge in December of last year and immediately moved to Mexico in Quito. took refuge in the embassy.
Ecuadorian President Daniel Novoa Asin declared embassy refuge illegal and requested Mexico to enter the embassy for arrest, but Mexico, which had granted asylum to former Vice President Glass, refused. Accordingly, Ecuadorian police entered the embassy in Quito that day and forcibly dragged out former President Glass.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador condemned this day on social media did.
At the same time, President López Obrador cited former Vice President Glass’s claim that the issuance of an arrest warrant was political persecution by the right-wing regime and claimed, “He is seeking asylum in Mexico due to persecution and harassment at the embassy.”
Former Vice President Glass, who served as vice president from 2013 to 2016 under the former left-leaning Rafael Correa and Lenin Moreno governments, was found guilty in 2017 of receiving bribes during the bidding process for government contracts from a Brazilian construction company. This time, he was arrested on charges of diverting reconstruction funds during the 2015 earthquake.
On the previous day (the 4th), President López Obrador, who is also a leftist, mentioned that right-wing President Novoa Asin was elected in October of last year and said, “It is a very unfortunate thing.” Accordingly, the Ecuadorian government immediately designated Mexico’s ambassador to the country as a ‘diplomatically undesirable person’ (persona non grata) and ordered his deportation.
(Seoul = News 1)
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2024-04-06 08:15:35