Quito. The Ecuadorian consulates in Mexico City and Monterrey will close on May 15, the South American nation’s foreign ministry reported today.
In a bulletin issued this Saturday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility reported that consular procedures will be handled from offices located in Guatemala City, Houston and Phoenix.
The suspension of consular services is a consequence of the breakdown of relations between both countries after the violent entry of Ecuadorian soldiers into the Mexican embassy in Quito on the night of April 5 to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas.
The Mexican diplomats left the Ecuadorian capital on Sunday, April 7.
After the event, which caused the repudiation of various countries and organizations, Mexico sued Ecuador before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating the Vienna Convention by invading its diplomatic headquarters.
When presenting their defense statement in The Hague, representatives of the Ecuadorian government justified the raid, an act that they described as exceptional and isolated.
For its part, Mexico accused Ecuador of “crossing lines that should not be crossed in international law” by violently entering the embassy and physically attacking a diplomat.
After hearing the arguments of both parties, the ICJ court must deliberate on the need for the precautionary measures that Mexico requested in its complaint filed on April 11, including a public apology for what happened.
Quito also presented an accusation against Mexico before the ICJ, which, according to analysts and experts, has a high probability of winning the litigation because an attack or invasion of an embassy is in no way justified.
Meanwhile, former Vice President Glas, whom Mexico considers politically persecuted, is in a maximum security prison in Guayaquil, despite the fact that a court of the National Court of Justice decreed that his detention was “illegal and arbitrary.”
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– 2024-05-13 04:37:21
