TOPSHOT - Picture released by API showing Ecuadorian police special forces attempting to break into the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas, on April 5, 2024.
Mexico abruptly suspended bilateral relations with Ecuador in an escalating diplomatic dispute, after Ecuador's police forced their way into the Mexican Embassy in the capital Quito to arrest a former vice-president on graft charges.·Police special forces attempt to break into the Mexican Embassy in Quito, Ecuador, to arrest Ecuador's former vice-president late Friday night.
The arrest capped a week of growing tensions between the two Latin American countries, after Quito declared the Mexican ambassadorEcuador in 'internal armed conflict' after gang leader's prison escape, president says He was first sentenced to six years in prison in late 2017 after a court found him guilty of taking bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in return for handing the scandal-choked firm's state contracts.
Glas served more than four years in prison before being released in 2022, only to be jailed again the same year after a court ruled he needed to serve the remainder of his sentences — although his lawyers had requested he serve them concurrently and benefit from parole.
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