2024-04-12 03:08:20
In a series of official statements by part of leaders y governments, International powers and countries led by the right in Latin America joined the condemnations against Ecuadorwhich was involved in a diplomatic storm due to international rejection of the assault by its security forces on the Mexican embassy in Quitoto arrest the former vice president Jorge Glas.
Joseph Borrellhead of diplomacy European Union (EU), replicated by ministries and representations of the Member States, also condemned the fact. These statements were joined by the British Embassy in Mexicowho asked to respect diplomatic missions, as established in the 1961 Vienna Convention on Relations between Nations.
Previously, the secretary general of United Nations, António Guterres, declared himself “alarmed” by the shocking operation, no close history.
USA He also condemned “any violation of the statute of One”, that guarantees sovereignty territory of an embassy, and called on both countries to “resolve their differences according to the rules.”
Both leftist governments in the region (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile), as on the right (Argentina and Peru) condemned the assault that culminated in the forcible arrest of Glas, required by the justice system of his country on charges of corruption and who had been taking refuge in that diplomatic headquarters since December.
In a statement, the Organization of American States (OAS) described Ecuador’s actions as “inappropriate” and expressed “solidarity” with the Mexican delegation.
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Last Friday, after the publication of images of police subduing the head of the delegation of Mexico in Quito, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador broke diplomatic relations with Ecuador. Nicaragua He imitated it on Saturday.
Images showed armed Ecuadorian uniformed men in front of the embassy. At least one of them scaled the fence surrounding the building to enter and detain Glas, who was granted asylum by Mexico after sheltering him for months.
The Mexican embassy in Quito It remained surrounded by police yesterday and the country’s flag was removed from its flagpole in the yard. He Government of Mexico announced that its diplomatic headquarters will remain closed “indefinitely,” while several countries offered to support Mexican citizens in the Andean country.
Glas, vice president of the socialist Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017, he has a preventive detention order for alleged embezzlement in public works contracted after the devastating earthquake on the Ecuadorian coast in 2016.
The leftist politician was transferred to a maximum security prison in Guayaquil known as “The rock”, according to government sources.
The ex-president Correa, exiled in Belgium since 2017 and sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for corruption, stated that Glas “has difficulty walking, because he was beaten.”
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