2024-04-08 23:15:00
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, said this Monday that he is willing to “resolve any difference” with Mexico, but warned that “justice is not negotiated,” in reference to the arrest of former vice president Jorge Glas, granted asylum by the Mexican government.
“To the brother people of Mexico, I want to express that I will always be willing to resolve any difference, but that justice is not negotiated, and that we will never protect criminals who have harmed Mexicans,” the Ecuadorian president wrote in a statement released in your X account.
The president defended his decision to break into the Mexican legation on Friday night, arguing that he might not run “the risk of an imminent escape.” “We might not allow sentenced criminals involved in very serious crimes to be granted asylum,” said Noboa.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld said in an interview with the Teleamazonas channel that her country is open to “reestablishing relations” with Mexico.
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Mexico broke its diplomatic channels with Ecuador on Saturday following the police assault on its embassy in Quito to arrest Glas, who had been in the legation as a refugee since December.
Sommerfeld acknowledged that “both countries were affected,” but that “Ecuador received a provocation, repeated non-compliance.”
And he considered that the “most serious” thing was the statement by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in which he “questions the legitimacy of the last elections, questions our free, democratic elections and above all questions a national mourning that until the day of today we carry it”, referring to the assassination of the centrist presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio on the eve of the August 2023 elections.
“There was interference in internal affairs of the State. That is also contravening” the Vienna Convention, Sommerfeld said.
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Quito maintains that the asylum granted by Mexico to Glas, 54, is “illicit”, since he is being investigated for a common crime (embezzlement for reconstruction works). In 2022, the former vice president was released from prison following serving five of the years to which he was sentenced for corruption.
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