Noboa reacts to the ICJ and accuses governments of cooperating with crime

Quito. At the same time that it was known about a letter from former Vice President Jorge Glas to the leaders of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, and the notification of a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), for April 30 and May 1, Due to the assault on the Mexican embassy, ​​President Daniel Noboa pointed out that “it can be seen that some governments cooperate with transnational criminal structures” and assured that “we are not going to allow them (those governments) to interfere with the country.”

But he did not stop there, he promised to reveal the names of the “real bosses” and the military objectives, “we have identified them,” because “no one has had the courage to say their names or their location, but they have focused on the minor bosses.”

With an agenda focused on promoting the YES vote in the popular consultation this Sunday, with an energy crisis never seen before in Ecuador, Noboa launched accusations, without naming, at his political rivals, in a popular neighborhood of Quito: ” “There is nothing more miserable than, in the week of a democratic holiday, wanting to shut down life, turn off electricity, especially affecting the poorest.” The reaction was immediate and leaders of political movements that promote the NO vote asked to give the names and not accuse without evidence.

At the event, the head of state also made reference to those he has called “saboteurs”, such as the former Minister of Energy, Andrea Arrobo, whom the government denounced for alleged paralysis of a public service and announced that some people could be imprisoned in the maximum security prison of La Roca, in Guayaquil.

In fact, Glas is in that prison and sent letters to the presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, through his lawyer Sonia Vera. In them, Glas reported that La Roca prison is the “worst prison,” that he suffers “torture” there, and is on a “hunger strike.”

The letter to Andrés Manuel López Obrador was known at the morning conference this Thursday. A journalist read the letter: “Thank you for the asylum. I am in the worst prison in Ecuador. Help me, here there is a brutal persecution against all progressives. I hope that international aid can do something.”

“What we want is for the ICJ to resolve, because there was a flagrant violation of our sovereignty and international law,” López Obrador responded.

Glas was arrested on Friday, April 5, inside the Mexican embassy in Quito. The police entered the place violently, attacked a diplomat and detained Glas, even though he had political asylum. After the capture he was transferred to La Roca prison in Guayaquil. And in response, Mexico sued Ecuador at the ICJ.

In the hearings on April 30 and May 1, the request for provisional measures raised by Mexico will be heard:

That the Government of Ecuador take appropriate and immediate measures to provide full protection and security of diplomatic facilities, their property and archives, avoiding any form of intrusion against them; allow the Mexican Government to clear diplomatic facilities and the private residence of diplomatic agents; ensure that no measures are taken that could harm the rights of Mexico with respect to any decision that the Court may issue on the merits of the matter; refrain from any act or conduct that could aggravate or expand the dispute over which the Court is empowered.