Mexico suspends relations with Ecuador after arrest of ex-VP
© Reuters. Ecuadorean police officers stand outside the Mexican embassy where they forcibly removed the former Ecuador Vice President Jorge Glas in Quito, Ecuador April 5, 2024. REUTERS/Karen ToroQUITO/MEXICO CITY -Ecuadorean authorities arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas on Friday evening, seizing him from the Mexican embassy and prompting Mexico to suspend bilateral relations.
The Ecuadorean president's office said in a statement it had arrested Glas, who was vice president under the leftist government of Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017. Lopez Obrador said he had instructed Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena to suspend diplomatic ties with Ecuador, calling the arrest an"authoritarian" act and a violation of international law and Mexican sovereignty.
Glas, who has a preventive arrest warrant out on another corruption case, has complained that he is being persecuted for his political affiliation, which Ecuador's government denies.
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