The government of Nicaragua announced this Saturday that it is also breaking diplomatic relations with Ecuador after the police raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quitowhere Ecuadorian security agents entered by force on Friday night to arrest the former vice president Jorge Glasto whom the Mexican Executive had granted political asylum.
Glas, who was on probation for two final sentences for corruption, faces a third trial, for which a preventive detention order was issued, while alleged embezzlement in the reconstruction of Manabí after the 2016 earthquake is investigated.
The former vice president entered the Mexican embassy in December 2023 and on Friday, April 5, he received political asylum from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
«In the face of the unusual and reprehensible action carried out this morning in Quito, by forces that should protect the order and security of Ecuadorian citizens and their lives, our forceful, emphatic and irrevocable rejection, which we convert into our sovereign decision to break all diplomatic relations with the Ecuadorian Government »reported the Executive chaired by Daniel Ortega in a statement.
The government of Nicaragua explained that on September 1, 2020 they withdrew their Embassy in Quito “and with this statement” they formalize “the breaking of all diplomatic relations” with Ecuador.
Ortega expropriated the OAS offices
In addition, expressed its solidarity and support, in any legal action that may arise from this, “to the president and Government of Mexico, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador”.
In its statement, Managua also spoke “in absolute rejection and condemnation of the neo-fascist political barbarism of the Government of Ecuador, whose admirable people deserve, as always, all our love, support and solidarity”.
“We condemn and reject this flagrant violation of International Law that we see repeated by corrupt and servile rulers to the empires, which unfortunately occupy institutional positions in that brother country,” he added.
In that sense, Nicaragua recalled that it learned “with astonishment the complicity of another recent Ecuadorian Government with the assault on its own headquarters in London, to violently and illegally extract Julian Assange, a journalist that the world demands and whose work allowed us to know and spread more “imperialist atrocities in sovereign countries, intervened, occupied and destroyed by fierce barbarians.”
In the note, Nicaragua, which two years ago expropriated the OAS offices in Managuaratified its “adherence to International Law and the Conventions that govern civilized relations between States and Governments of the world.”
Alleged embezzlement
The Ecuadorian Police broke into the headquarters of the Mexican embassy in Quito on Friday and arrested Jorge Glas, vice president of Ecuador between 2013 and 2017 with Rafael Correa (2007-2017) and then at the beginning of the Government of Lenín Moreno (2017). -2021), the same day that the Aztec Government granted him political asylum.
Glas, 54 years old and considered Correa’s right-hand man, entered the embassy last December and shortly after requested asylum.
The politician is prosecuted for alleged embezzlement of funds in the so-called ‘Reconstruction Case’ of the province of Manabíthe most affected by the strong earthquake of 2016, and a judge had ordered his arrest and entry into preventive detention after he stayed at the Mexican Embassy.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced the formal breaking of diplomatic relations with Ecuador, considering the invasion of the embassy in Quito as a violation of national sovereignty and international law.
EFE
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