The government of Mexico has confirmed the granting of political asylum for the former vice president Jorge Glaswho has taken refuge in the Embassy of that country, in Quito, since December 17 of last year, shortly before he is called to appear before the Prosecutor’s Office in an investigation of alleged embezzlement while he chaired a reconstruction committee of Manabíafter the earthquake of April 2016.
Glas has remained in the Mexican embassy, despite the fact that on January 5, a judge issued a preventive detention order against him, after the Prosecutor’s Office filed charges. The former vice president is on conditional release, after having served a percentage of the sentences imposed after being found guilty in two different trials for illicit enrichment and bribery collection.
“After an exhaustive analysis of the information received, the Government of Mexico has decided to grant political asylum to Mr. Jorge David Glas Espinel, who is currently at the Mexican Embassy in Quito”said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) in a statement.
Likewise, he noted that this decision will be officially communicated to the Ecuadorian authorities along with the request to grant the respective safe passagein accordance with the 1954 Diplomatic Asylum Convention, an international treaty to which Mexico and Ecuador are party states.
Ungrateful person
Asylum for Glas, who has been at the Mexican Embassy in Quito since December, is announced after Ecuador declared the Mexican ambassador persona ‘non grata’ on Thursday in response to comments from the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the assassination of the former presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
About, The Foreign Ministry reproached the actions of the Government of Daniel Noboa stating that he instructed Serur to return to Mexico to “protect his safety and integrity.”
He pointed out that at all times during her administration, the ambassador adhered to her actions to the foreign policy principles established in the Constitution and international law, and He denounced that declaring it ‘non grata’ “clearly has a political nature.”
Likewise, he reported that now the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador will be in charge of Roberto Canseco, current head of the mission’s Foreign Ministry, and will continue to “operate normally.”
“Mexico regrets this diplomatic decision that it considers disproportionate”he emphasized.
Safe passage
The SRE rejected the increase in the presence of Ecuadorian police forces outside its diplomatic headquarters in Quito because, he said, it constitutes a “clear harassment” of the embassy and a “flagrant violation” of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
“It is evident that these actions do not correspond to the usual practices of surveillance and protection of diplomatic properties, based on the norms that regulate good coexistence between nations,” he pointed out.
Finally, he demanded that Ecuador respect the country’s sovereignty, not violate the right to asylum and comply with its international obligations.
In addition, he held Ecuador responsible for any damage to the diplomatic headquarters, its accredited personnel and any person who is under the protection of the Mexican State in that country.
📄 Mexico regrets the declaration of persona non grata to the ambassador in Ecuador, Raquel Serur Smeke. pic.twitter.com/BG7Q2dN9Jq
— Foreign Affairs (@SRE_mx) April 5, 2024
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