legislators of USA and experts referred to the breaking of diplomatic relations between Mexico y Ecuadorduring a hearing of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate of EU about the fight against transnational criminal networks, made on Thursday, April 11.
Mark Wellsdeputy undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean at the State Department, indicated that Ecuador has faced unprecedented violence and instability at the hands of gangs and other actors in recent months, and recalled that they have expressed their support for the attorney general of Diana Salazar.
“In March, the State Department held the fourth high-level dialogue between the United States and Ecuador, where the United States expressed its strong support for the Attorney General as she prosecutes violence committed by transnational criminal organizations and investigates wide-ranging corruption among the judiciary and the political class,” Wells said.
Later, the senator Tim Kaine He asked if he could refer to the dispute between Mexico y Ecuadorwhat Wells responded that USA condemned the invasion of the Mexican embassy in Quito, committed to capture the former vice president Jorge Glassince it violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
He indicated that USA urged that Ecuador y Mexico solve this problem, since no one benefits from this crisis except crime.
«Only drug traffickers and criminals win when Ecuador and Mexico fight. Many of Ecuador’s current problems are related to the presence of Mexican cartels and Colombian cocaine,” said Wells.
According to Ecuavisathe US official noted that Ecuador It is an important drug transshipment point, and there are areas that are currently under dispute by Ecuadorian gangs and Mexican cartels.
“We call on both governments to cooperate and try to find a way to move forward and overcome this dispute,” he reaffirmed.
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