QUITO.— Ecuador announced on Monday that sued Mexico before the international Court of Justice for the, allegedly illegal, concession of the political asylum for former vice president Jorge Glaswho was later arrested following a break-in at the embassy of that country in Quito, which triggered the breakdown of diplomatic relations between both countries.
The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry indicated in a statement that according to the complaint Mexico failed to fulfill “its obligations not to grant asylum to people who are being prosecuted or on trial for common crimes or convicted by competent ordinary courts.”
Shortly following the asylum was granted, a group of Ecuadorian police and military officers broke into the facilities of the Mexican embassy in the Ecuadorian capital and arrested Glas.
What is Jorge Glas accused of?
Jorge Glas, 54, held the vice presidency between 2013 and 2017, following which he was prosecuted and received two sentences for corruption. One of six years in prison for Odebrecht case and another eight years old receive bribes in exchange for authorizing public works.
At the beginning of this year, justice required it once more in a case of alleged embezzlement of funds destined for the reconstruction of two provinces affected by a powerful earthquake in 2016.
Ecuador breaks into the Mexican embassy
The entry into the Mexican embassy of elements of an elite corps of the Ecuadorian National Police on the night of April 5 to arrest Glas unleashed a political crisis between both countries that escalated to the breaking of diplomatic relations and a complaint from Mexico. once morest Ecuador in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The unprecedented action almost the entire international community rejected itbut Ecuador argued that Mexico might not protect people accused of common crimes, which is why it described the asylum as “illicit.”
After that, Mexico broke diplomatic relations with Ecuador and denounced the Andean country before the International Criminal Court.
The Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa He has told the media that he does not regret having ordered the raid on the Mexican embassy because he believes that some governments use political refuge to “achieve impunity.”
Tensions between Mexico and Ecuador began days before the raid on the diplomatic headquarters due to statements made by the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador regarding the last elections in Ecuador, held in October and in which Noboa won. Following López Obrador’s comments, the Noboa government declared the Mexican ambassador persona non grata.
In its statement on Monday, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry maintained that these statements violated “the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Organization of American States and other instruments.”
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2024-05-12 06:08:43