International leaders have condemned Ecuador after police in the country’s capital broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former vice president who had been granted political asylum.
The raid late Friday prompted Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to break off diplomatic relations with Ecuador, while his government’s foreign relations secretary said the move will be challenged at the World Court in The Hague.
Police broke through the external doors of the embassy in Quito to arrest Jorge Glas, who had been residing there since December. He had sought asylum after being indicted on corruption charges and it had been granted hours earlier.
The break-in was widely condemned.
The Organization of American States in a statement reminded its members, which include Ecuador and Mexico, of their obligation not to “invoke norms of domestic law to justify non-compliance with their international obligations.”
He get asylum because Mexico authorities see his charges as political persecution. There is a trend in Latin America of bogus corruption’s trials against left wing politicians, as Lula, Kirchner and Morales cases show.
Always remember that the tribunals are not that just and independent at all, and condemnations can be made up.
Nice - Mexico as the moral high ground.