Mexico and Ecuador are going through a diplomatic crisis: Latin American countries express their position

Latin American countries supported Mexico in its diplomatic crisis with Ecuador and condemned the police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, which was labeled “inappropriate” by the OAS. The action of the security forces resulted in the capture of former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, who was being sought by the authorities of his country and was taking refuge in the diplomatic headquarters of Mexico.

Nicaragua

The Nicaraguan government chaired by Daniel Ortega was the most forceful, breaking this Saturday “all diplomatic relationship” with Ecuador.

“Given the unusual and reprehensible action […] our forceful, emphatic and irrevocable rejection, which we convert into our Sovereign Decision to break all diplomatic relations with the Ecuadorian government”he said in a statement.

Last February, Nicaragua granted political asylum in its embassy in Panama City to the former conservative president of that country (2009-2014) Ricardo Martinelli, convicted of money laundering.

Brazil

The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva condemned “in the firmest terms” the measure carried out by the Ecuadorian government, according to a statement from the Brazilian Foreign Ministry.

Is “a clear violation” of international conventions that establish that “The premises of a diplomatic mission are inviolable“, and constitutes a “serious precedent“which deserves a”strong repudiation“, stated the Itamaraty Palace in a statement.

“All my solidarity with the president and friend (Andrés Manuel) López Obrador”Lula wrote on the social network X, formerly Twitter, where he shared the foreign ministry statement.

Argentina

The Argentine Foreign Ministry issued a statement in which “sentence” the assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito, while calling for “full observance” of the provisions of the 1954 Convention on Diplomatic Asylum and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

The far-right government Javier Milei recalled in the document that the Argentina “has recently granted this condition (diplomatic asylum) to Venezuelan political leaders and is awaiting the issuance of the corresponding safe-conduct passes.”.

Venezuela

The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Glas was captured “illegally“after having received asylum”product of the atrocious persecution of which he has been a victim”.

“All of this constitutes an action that not even the most atrocious dictatorships in the region, such as that of Augusto Pinochet in Chile or Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina, have recorded.“said the government of Nicolás Maduro in the note, released on social networks by the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil.

Cuba

Cuba condemned “energetically” the “raid of military forces of Ecuador”.

“It constitutes a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the right to asylum and the sovereignty of Mexico”, stated the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, in X.

Bolivia

The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, described the incursion as a fact “serious and unacceptable” that “is unprecedented in the history of international law”.

“We reject the violation of the right to asylum after the kidnapping and detention of the former vice president of Ecuador Jorge Glas, who was waiting for safe passage at the Mexican diplomatic headquarters“, stated the president in X.

Honduras

The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, said that the assault on the embassy was “to kidnap” to Glas and represents a “intolerable act”.

“We strongly repudiate this violation of the sovereignty of the Mexican State and international law. We stand in solidarity with the Mexican people and their president López Obrador”Castro stated.

Chili

“All our solidarity with Mexico in the face of the unacceptable violation of its sovereignty through the invasion of the Ecuadorian police into the embassy of Mexico in Quito”, writes the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, in X.

The Foreign Ministry of the Andean country stated in a statement: “its deep concern about the violation of the right to asylum, contemplated in the 1954 Convention on Diplomatic Asylum and recognized as a contribution of Latin America to international law”, advocating because “this incident between sister nations be resolved quickly”.

Panama

The Panamanian government chaired by Laurentino Cortizo rejected “the use of force as an instrument of diplomatic negotiation (…) in open defiance of the fundamental principles of international law and diplomatic relations“, according to a statement from his foreign ministry.

Costa Rica and Dominican Republic

Together with Panama, the governments of Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic regretted in a joint statement “the inexcusable violation by the government of Ecuador of the territorial integrity of the Mexican Embassy in Quito”.

“The international standards that regulate asylum should never serve as any justification for violating the diplomatic headquarters of a State.“, they emphasized.

The three Caribbean countries hope that Ecuador and Mexico “can overcome this serious conflict as soon as possible through dialogue”according to the statement.

OAS

The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) For his part, he said in a statement that “rejects any action that violates or puts at risk the inviolability of the premises of diplomatic missions” and said that countries cannot “invoke rules of domestic law to justify failure to comply with its international obligations”.

“In this context, expresses solidarity with those who were victims of the inappropriate actions that affected the Embassy of Mexico in Ecuador”.

The organization called the “dialogue between the parties” and estimated “a meeting of the OAS Permanent Council is necessary”.