The left and the right of Latin America repudiate the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador

From both the left and the right, the governments of Latin America in unison rejected the police raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, where Ecuadorian security agents forcibly entered on Friday night to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, whom the Mexican Executive granted political asylum.

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, expressed his gratitude for the international support received after the incident at the Embassy of his country in Ecuador, where the diplomatic assault took place. Likewise, López Obrador asked Mexican citizens not to fall for provocations and avoid harassment.

Messages of solidarity did not take long to arrive, the first were: Luis Alberto Arce (Bolivia), Gustavo Petro (Colombia), Gabriel Boric (Chile) as well as the former president of Argentina Alberto Fernández (2019-2023).

For its part, the government of Nicaragua announced that it was breaking diplomatic relations with Ecuador, just as Mexico itself had announced the night before through its foreign minister, Alicia Bárcena.

The secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, urged Mexico and Ecuador to “dialogue” and anticipated that he will request a meeting of the organization’s Permanent Council to address tensions between both countries.

In a statement, the General Secretariat of the OAS, headed by Almagro, called “for dialogue between the parties to resolve their differences” and considered a meeting of the organization’s Permanent Council, based in Washington, “necessary.” Meanwhile, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) considered that the “unusual raid on the Embassy”, as well as “the kidnapping of the former vice president” and “the mistreatment of all Mexican diplomatic personnel constitute serious violations of international law.” unprecedented”.

The government of Colombia formally requested Honduras, which holds the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), an extraordinary meeting of this body to address Ecuador’s possible breach of the Vienna Convention by forcibly entering the Mexican Embassy in Quito.

“Given the situation that occurred at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, Colombia formally requested Honduras, pro tempore presidency of Celac, to call an extraordinary meeting to address this serious matter related to the breach of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” reported the Colombian Foreign Ministry. .

The former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa (2007-2017) assured that the current president, Daniel Noboa, confuses the country “with one of his banana farms.”

«Not even in the worst dictatorships has a country’s embassy been violated. We do not live in a State of law, but in a State of barbarism, with an improvised system that confuses the homeland with one of its banana farms,” ​​Correa said in reference to the current president, Daniel Noboa, whose family owns the largest banana emporium in the country, first world exporter of that fruit.