Quito now files a complaint against Canseco

The former head of the Foreign Ministry and Political Affairs at the Mexican embassy in Quito, Roberto Canseco, is now accused of obstructing justice. The lawsuit against him was filed on April 16 and was made public yesterday.

In a message posted on social network X, the attorney general’s office specified that in this case does not have investigative powerby virtue of the fact that Canseco belonged to a diplomatic mission, so he ordered that said news of the crime is made known to the United Mexican States, as appropriate.

The complainant is Galo Monteverde and Milton Castillo appears as the complaining victim. The two are political activists of the Ecuadorian right, much more intense during the government of Rafael Correa. In fact, Monteverde is still under investigation for the assault on the public channel Ecuador TV, on September 30, 2010, when a group of police mutinied against the government at that time. Likewise, Castillo has several criminal investigations, the latest for influence peddling, for which he will go to a preparatory trial hearing on May 27. In a statement, the prosecutor’s office indicated yesterday that anyone can file a complaint, but admitted that Canseco, having been part of a diplomatic mission, enjoys – in accordance with international law – immunity, so he refrained from continuing with the process. .

Under these circumstances, he ordered that the news of the crime be made known to the government of Mexico. In fact, article 400 of the Comprehensive Penal Code, cited by the plaintiffs, does not correspond to the meaning of the accusation, since diplomats and their families are excluded from this type of positions when they perform functions within their headquarters.

In this case, Canseco defended the embassy facilities and was therefore attacked and threatened with heavy-caliber weapons. Only when he left the headquarters was he seen trying to stop a police car and was immediately attacked by the gendarmes, while trying to prevent the forcible removal of former vice president Jorge Glas, to whom the Mexican government granted political asylum a day earlier. but it became official until that day.

On April 11, Mexico formalized the lawsuit against Ecuador before the International Court of Justice, an entity that announced that hearings will be held on April 30 and May 1.