Mexico has suspended diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police forcibly broke into the country’s embassy in Quito to detain former Ecuadorian vice-president Jorge Glas, deepening a diplomatic rift between the two countries.
Glas, convicted twice for corruption, had been holed up in the embassy in Quito since seeking political asylum in December, arguing he was being persecuted by the attorney general’s office.
Police forcefully entered Mexico’s embassy before making the arrest, the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, posted on X.
“Ecuador is a sovereign nation and we are not going to allow any criminal to stay free,” Ecuador’s presidency wrote in a statement on Friday night.
López Obrador fired back, calling Glas’s detention an “authoritarian act” and “a flagrant violation of international law and the sovereignty of Mexico”. He said he had instructed Mexico’s foreign minister to suspend diplomatic ties with Ecuador.
h/t Hyper Star