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Mexico is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raided its embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been seeking asylum there.
Mexico's government severed diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president, an extraordinary use of force that shocked and ...
Mexico has cut diplomatic relations with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas.. Glas, who has been convicted twice for ...
On 10 April, by a near unanimous vote (Ecuador voted against, El Salvador abstained, and Mexico was absent), the Permanent Council adopted a resolution "strongly condemn[ing] the intrusion into the premises of the Embassy of Mexico in Ecuador and the acts of violence against the well-being and dignity of the diplomatic personnel of the mission".
The agency said he had been allowed in “as a guest” based on Mexico's legal framework of international protection of persons and other constitutional and legal norms. Ecuador's government immediately requested that Mexican officials ask Glas to leave the embassy. Dec. 18, 2023: Ecuador's top prosecutor links Glas to drug lord
The arrest caps a week of escalating tensions between Mexico and Ecuador, which on Thursday declared Mexico's ambassador in Quito persona non grata, citing "unfortunate" comments from the leftist ...
In 1819, Ecuador was part of the Gran Colombia (which included present day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela). After its break up, Mexico recognized and established diplomatic relations with Ecuador in June 1830. [1] In 1837, Mexico opened a consulate in Guayaquil which subsequently became its first diplomatic mission in South America.
13 September – María Daniela Icaza, director of the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the largest prison in Ecuador, is shot dead in a vehicle by gunmen believed to be working for drug gangs. [30] 24–25 September – At least six people are injured in wildfires that break out around Quito. One person is arrested on suspicion of arson. [31]