After raid in Ecuador, Mexico embassy staff return home

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Updated 8 April 2024 at 1:18 am

STORY: Days ago Mexico cut diplomatic ties with Ecuador, after police forced their way into the Mexican embassy in Ecuador’s capital on Friday to arrest Ecuador’s former Vice President Jorge Glas.

Glas has been taking refuge there since December after Ecuador issued an arrest warrant against him for corruption.

Ecuador argued it was unlawful for Mexico to grant asylum to Glas, who had been convicted twice on graft charges.

On Saturday, this Ecuadorian security convoy escorted Glas out of court.

With relations now in tatters, Mexico’s embassy personnel were welcomed back home on Sunday.

The arrest has provoked global shock and condemnation of Ecuador.

Under international law, embassies are considered sovereign territory of the countries they represent.

Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena hailed the solidarity shown with Mexico from 18 Latin American governments, in addition to 10 European countries, plus its North American neighbours, and she lashed out at Ecuador's "physical aggression” on the embassy.

"Something like this had not happened in the history of Mexico or in the recent history of Latin America," she said. "Not even in the worst times of dictatorships, not even dictator Pinochet dared to violate Mexico’s embassy in Chile."

In 2017, Glas was sentenced to six years in prison after he was found guilty of taking bribes from a Brazilian construction firm in exchange for awarding it government contracts.

As he faced a fresh arrest warrant on separate graft charges, Glas has claimed he is the victim of political persecution, a charge Ecuador's government has denied.

Last week, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s government declared Mexico’s ambassador to the country persona non grata, in other words, asking Mexico to recall her – citing "unfortunate" comments from the Mexican president about Ecuador's violence-plagued elections last year.

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