Ecuador-Mexico, crisis and chaos after the arrest in the embassy –

Black crisis between Mexico and Ecuador. Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena announced the severing of diplomatic relations with Ecuador following the arrest of former Mexican vice president Jorge Glas, whom the Mexican embassy in Quito had welcomed, granting him diplomatic asylum despite the authorities’ reluctance of Ecuador. «During consultations with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faced with the flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the injuries suffered by Mexican diplomatic personnel in Ecuador, Mexico announces the immediate severing of diplomatic relations with Ecuador “, wrote Bárcena in a note on ». Furthermore, Mexico announced that it will sue Ecuador before the International Court of Justice “for violations of international law.”

This decision comes, as López Obrador explained following speaking with Bárcena, following “the Ecuadorian police forcefully entered” his embassy and “arrested the former Mexican vice president, who was a refugee and was requesting asylum . This is a flagrant violation of international law and Mexico’s sovereignty, which is why I have instructed our chancellor to issue a statement on this authoritarian act, proceed legally, and immediately declare the suspension of diplomatic relations with the government of Ecuador.” Another fiery front in the global geopolitical scenario.