Last Friday night, by order of the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, the country’s police stormed the Mexican embassy to arrest Jorge Glas, former vice president of Rafael Correa prosecuted for corruption and who had requested political asylum from Mexico. An arrest that has caused a diplomatic conflict and that the security cameras have been able to record, in images that show the violent attitude of the agents towards the staff and Glas.

Security cameras show how the police targeted with a gun to Roberto Canseco, in charge of the diplomatic mission, while they carried Glas away. The events were condemned by many Latin American and European governments. because they represent a violation of the Vienna Convention, which stipulates that embassies are inviolable.

For its part, Ecuador has accused Mexico of having violated international treaties on the right to asylum after having given refuge to a person prosecuted for corruption. Mexico, as its president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has advanced, has filed a complaint against Ecuador before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the assault.

López Obrador has asserted during his usual morning press conference that “Mexico is respected“, at the same time that he has slipped that the way of acting of the Ecuadorian authorities suggests that they have “the support of other governments or powers”, and that it is for this reason that Mexico City raises the matter to the ICJ.

Two versions about his admission to the hospital

The former vice president of Ecuador (2013-2017) entered the La Roca penitentiary center in Guayaquil again this Tuesday, after having received the discharged from hospital due to decompensation suffered on Monday night that caused his entry. However, other sources close to his environment have indicated that he would have tried to commit suicide.

Glas has been transferred to La Roca in the middle of a large security device in which up to fifteen Police vehicles, two tanks, a group of motorized agents and agents from the Transit and Mobility Agency have participated, reports the Ecuavisa chain.

According to a statement from the national prison service of Ecuador (SNAI), after being subjected After medical examinations, Glas presented “acceptable health parameters” and within the normal range, so you can receive the corresponding medical discharge.

The former Ecuadorian vice president was admitted to the hospital on Monday afternoon due to an episode of decompensation resulting from not having eaten for several hours. Previously, sources close to the institution speculated about a possible drug overdose, in an attempt to take his own life.

Obrador accuses the US of an “ambiguous stance”

The White House has raised its tone and condemned the raid by the Ecuadorian Police at the Mexican embassy in Quito, after having reviewed the videos from the security cameras that the Mexican authorities made public. This same Tuesday, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had accused the United States and Canada of having adopted a “ambiguous stance”.

“We condemn this violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, including the use of force against embassy officials,” White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said at a press conference.

President Joe Biden’s advisor has assured having reviewed the captured images by the security cameras of the Mexican embassy in Quito and has concluded that the actions of the Government of Ecuador were “wrong”.

Likewise, the counselor has expressed his hope that the meetings of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) convened this week will serve to find a ““peaceful diplomatic solution” to the dispute between both countries.

Sullivan has for the first time directly condemned the actions of the Ecuadorian Government, given that until now the State Department had limited itself to condemning “any violation of the Vienna Convention” and emphasizing that the United States takes “very seriously” the obligations to respect the inviolability of diplomatic missions.