The Ecuadorian Police arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas from the Mexican Embassy in Quito on Friday night, according to a statement on X from the government of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on X.
Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito on Friday night to arrest a former vice president seeking asylum there, in an escalation of tensions that Mexico decried as “an outrage against international law.” Mexico’s foreign minister said the country would break off diplomatic relations with Ecuador after the arrest of former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas.
“What you have just seen is an outrage against international law and the inviolability of the Mexican embassy in Ecuador,” Roberto Canseco, head of chancellery and policy affairs of the Mexican embassy, told a reporter from CNN en Español, calling Glas’s arrest “totally unacceptable.” “It is barbarism,” Canseco added. “It is impossible for them to violate the diplomatic premises as they have done.
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