Ecuadorian police forcefully entered the Mexican Embassy in Quito on Friday night to arrest Jorge Glas, former vice president of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), after the Mexican Government had granted him the political asylum he had requested. The assault has led the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to announce the suspension of diplomatic relations with the Andean country.
The Ecuadorian National Police climbed the walls of the Mexican diplomatic headquarters to capture Glas, who was under a preventive detention order for a case of alleged corruption in which he is currently being prosecuted, after having spent nearly five years between 2017 and 2022. in jail for two current convictions for crimes that he rejects, considering that he is the victim of political persecution against him.
