Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that the country will sever diplomatic ties with Ecuador after Ecuadorian police forcibly entered the Mexican embassy in Quito and detained former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas.
QUITO, Ecuador — Mexico ’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday evening the country will break diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito.
“Ecuador is a sovereign nation and we are not going to allow any criminal to stay free,” wrote Ecuador's Presidency in a statement Friday night. Alicia Bárcena, Mexico's secretary of foreign relations, added that a number of diplomats suffered injuries in the incident and said it violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
“This is not possible, it cannot be, this is crazy,” said Roberto Canseco, head of the Mexican consular section in Quito, outside the embassy.
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