Mexico breaks relations with Ecuador after
embassy stormed
Posted By: FormerDem, 4/7/2024 9:32:01 AM
QUITO/MEXICO CITY, April 5 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean authorities arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas on Friday evening, seizing him from the Mexican embassy and prompting Mexico to suspend bilateral relations. Glas, 54, convicted twice of corruption, had been holed up in the embassy in Quito since seeking political asylum in December, a request Mexico granted earlier on Friday. Police forcefully entered Mexico's embassy in Quito before making the arrest, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador posted on X.
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QUITO/MEXICO CITY, April 5 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean authorities arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas on Friday evening, seizing him from the Mexican embassy and prompting Mexico to suspend bilateral relations.
Glas, 54, convicted twice of corruption, had been holed up in the embassy in Quito since seeking political asylum in December, a request Mexico granted earlier on Friday.
Police forcefully entered Mexico's embassy in Quito before making the arrest, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador posted on X.
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Glas was the strongman in the Correa regime, which opened the doors to the narcotraffickers who have become exceedingly strong and now are trying to literally take over the country. Ecuador is fighting for its democratic life, not to be ruled by monsters. This Embassy situation is open to the interpreation that there was a plan underway at the Embassy to use a diplomatic car and an Air Mexico flight already scheduled, to get Glas out of Ecuador. There were signs of preparation within the Embassy. There is no known limit to Glas's greed at his country's expense. Glas got rich off corrupttion, deals with China, and trampling on the rights and environment of the indigenous I think the Government was fighting for the democratic life of the country and my bet is on Naboa to have done the right and absolutely necessary thing to prevent a takeover of Ecuador by the cartels.