Ecuadorian police forced their way into Mexico’s embassy in Quito and arrested former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum there.
Ecuadorian police attempt to break into the Mexican Embassy in Quito, Ecuador, on Friday to arrest former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, who had been granted political asylum in Mexico. MEXICO CITY — Ecuadorian police forced their way into Mexico’s embassy in Quito late Friday and pulled out a former vice president who had sought asylum there, sparking a diplomatic crisis in a region becoming increasingly polarized between left and right.
The raid was a brazen move by Ecuador’s government, which sent a convoy of black vehicles with sirens blaring to break down the front gate of the embassy. When the“This is totally unacceptable,” the consul, Roberto Canseco, told journalists, his voice breaking. “At risk of my life, I defended the honor and sovereignty of my country. This can’t be!”
The Mexican government had granted political asylum on Friday afternoon to Jorge Glas, the former Ecuadorian vice president. Glas has been convicted twice for corruption. He claimed he was being persecuted by the country’s attorney general.Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a longtime leftist, is an ally of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa, who left office in 2017.
Ecuador has been fighting a surge in violence attributed to drug traffickers battling over booming traffic in cocaine headed from Colombia to Europe and South America. Some are believed to be tied to Mexican cartels.Latin America has become increasingly divided along ideological lines.
López Obrador has largely maintained a pragmatic relationship with the United States, his country’s No. 1 trading partner. But he has been feuding with a number of conservative governments in Latin America.
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