2024-04-29 19:25:32
The record showed how the former Ecuadorian vice president, Jorge Glas, was taken out with his feet and hands immobilized.
In the midst of the crisis that Mexico faces with Ecuador, a country with which it decided to break diplomatic relations, the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, revealed the video that the assault on their embassy by the Quito police.
It was last Friday night, when the Ecuadorian Armed Forces stormed the Mexican embassy to arrest former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, who was under political asylum.
“This is a violation, not only of the sovereignty of our country but also of international law, to the right of asylum, to the right that all nations have to have protection from their embassies,” said the Mexican president when showing the images.
Along with this, he added that “this cannot be allowed, cannot be accepted, in any case. Nor can any pretext or excuse be used to violate a right such as asylum and the right to protection of an embassy.”
After the attack on the embassy, The uniformed officers searched the premises and also detained Roberto Canseco, head of the Foreign Ministry who led the diplomatic mission after Ecuador declared ambassador Raquel Serur persona non grata last Thursday.
The record showed how the Ecuadorian, Jorge Glas, He was taken out with his feet and hands immobilized.
OAS condemnation
The Organization of American States (OAS) “strongly” condemned the actions of the Ecuadorian police at the Mexican embassy in Quito.
The resolution published by the organization states that “we strongly condemn the intrusion into the facilities of the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador and the acts of violence against the integrity and dignity of diplomatic personnel of the mission.”