Mexico reduce diplomatic ties with Ecuador after legislation enforcement entered the Mexican Embassy Friday and arrested the previous Ecuadorian vice chairman who had been dwelling on the premises since late final 12 months.
The Ecuadorean police raided the Mexican Embassy in Quito, Ecuador’s capital, and arrested Jorge Glas, Eduador’s former vice chairman who sought asylum on the diplomatic constructing. Glas had been sheltered on the embassy since December.
Glas had been sentenced to jail for alleged corruption and a warrant was issued for his arrest, based on Ecuador’s presidential office. Mexico granted Glas asylum earlier on Friday.
Mexican Overseas Minister Alicia Barcena introduced the suspension of diplomatic relations with Ecuador, stating the transfer violated the Vienna Conference on Diplomatic Relations. She mentioned the Mexican diplomats on the embassy sustained accidents through the raid.
The arrest comes as tensions between the 2 international locations have been simmering for months. On Thursday, Ecuador’s authorities mentioned the Mexican ambassador was undesirable following Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s feedback about Ecuador’s election that befell final 12 months.
After the Friday arrest, Glas was taken to the lawyer common’s workplace on Saturday and later flown to Guayaquil, a metropolis 265 miles south of Quito the place he will probably be in custody, based on the Related Press.
Glas was Ecuador’s vice chairman from 2013 to 2017. He amassed corruption expenses throughout his tenure, finally being discovered responsible of getting bribes from a development behemoth, Odebrecht, based on The New York Occasions. He was sentenced to jail for six years. In 2020, he was convicted in one other corruption case and was sentenced to eight years in jail, based on The Occasions. He bought an early launch from jail in November 2022 however was hit with one other embezzlement cost.
