EFE was able to verify that several police officers They climbed walls and fences from the diplomatic headquarters and then left that residence, which was heavily guarded by the military from early on, at a time of tension between both governments.
The head of the Chancellery and Political Affairs of the Embassy, Roberto Cansecoin statements to journalists, denounced that the Ecuadorian agents They broke in and attacked the staff guard of the diplomatic headquarters.
“This is totally unacceptablethis can not be, it is barbarism“Canseco said and assured that the agents they hit when he confronted them to try to prevent them from violating the space of the Mexican Embassy in Quito.
Furthermore, without confirming that former Vice President Glas had been detained in that operation, he warned that fears for the politician’s life Ecuadorian.
🔴 #URGENT
What the government of Ecuador has done is very serious. @DanielNoboaOk.
The rape of the embassy #Mexico In Ecuador it is a fascist act of extreme gravity that violates diplomatic relations and international law. Embassies represent the… pic.twitter.com/axkadOZLin— CONAIE (@CONAIE_Ecuador) April 6, 2024
“He is a persecuted person as we can see” tonight, he added, repeating: “This can not be“.
Our sovereign territory in Quito, Ecuador, was violated by the neoliberal and fascist president of Daniel Noboa, he is responsible for this police intervention together with the OAS.
Roberto Canseco was beaten following defending the Mexican embassy.
RT👇pic.twitter.com/UsaIIFhpib— David Vargas Araujo (@DavidVargasA18) April 6, 2024
A source close to the events assured EFE that Glas was detained at the diplomatic facility and was transferred to a unit of the Prosecutor’s Office in Quito, although the Ecuadorian authorities, for the moment, they have not spoken regarding this case.
AMLO’s statement
After the events that occurred, Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke out through his social networks, where he not only classified the situation as a violation of international law but also asked his chancellor to declare the suspension of diplomatic relations with Ecuador.
“Alicia Bárcena, our Secretary of Foreign Affairs, has just informed me that police from Ecuador forcibly entered our embassy and detained the former vice president of that country who was a refugee and processing asylum due to the persecution and harassment he faces,” says the Mexican president.
Alicia Bárcena, our Secretary of Foreign Affairs, has just informed me that police from Ecuador forcibly entered our embassy and detained the former vice president of that country who was a refugee and processing asylum due to persecution and harassment…
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) April 6, 2024
This episode occurs one day following the Government of Ecuador declared “persona non grata” to the Mexican ambassador in Quito, Rauel Sesurfor comments by the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, regarding the murder of the former Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio and the apparent electoral consequences of that crime.
The Foreign Ministry of Ecuador invoked the principle of “non-intervention” in internal affairs of another country and the Vienna Convention to take the diplomatic measure that implies the departure of the ambassador from the country.
To the citizens: pic.twitter.com/KKhTQVbXD8
— Presidency Ecuador 🇪🇨 (@Presidencia_Ec) April 6, 2024
López Obrador commented at a press conference regarding the consequences of the murder of Villavicencio in the context of last year’s presidential elections in Ecuador, which gave victory to the current president, businessman Daniel Noboa.
The Mexican president said that, in his opinion, the crime of Villavicencio It especially harmed Luisa Gonzálezthe presidential candidate of the Citizen Revolution Movement, led by the progressive former ruler Rafael Correa (2007-2017), an opinion that has also been shared by several electoral analysts in Ecuador.
However, the Ecuadorian Government described López Obrador’s opinions as “very unfortunate”at a time when the country is still mourning the murder of Villavicencio, a crime that “caused commotion in Ecuadorian society and attacked democracy, peace and security.”
#LAST MINUTE The former vice president of Ecuador Jorge Glas, who had taken refuge since December in the Mexican embassy in Quito evading an arrest warrant for alleged corruption, was arrested on Friday, reported the Communication Secretariat of the Ecuadorian Presidency. pic.twitter.com/1bE22K5zuY
— Agence France-Presse (@AFPespanol) April 6, 2024
Villavicencio He was shot dead on August 9, 2023.at the exit of an electoral rally in Quito when there were eleven days left before the celebration of the first round of the extraordinary general elections, a process that finally concluded with the triumph of Noboa.
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