Mexico welcomes dwelling Ecuador embassy workers after armed raid By Reuters

By David Alire Garcia

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico welcomed the return of its Ecuador embassy personnel on Sunday, two days after police raided the power in an act that triggered an abrupt diplomatic break whereas frightening world shock and condemnation of the South American nation.

Ecuadorean police and troopers compelled their approach into Mexico’s embassy in Quito late Friday evening to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas who had for months taken refuge there, after Mexican officers provided him formal asylum safety earlier within the day.

Ecuador argued it was illegal to grant asylum to Glas, who had been convicted twice on graft prices.

Glas, 54, who had a preventive arrest warrant out on one other corruption case, had been holed up within the embassy in Quito since in search of political asylum in December.

On the Mexican capital’s essential airport, Overseas Minister Alicia Barcena hailed the solidarity proven with Mexico from 18 Latin American governments – practically all the area and spanning its ideological divides – along with 10 European nations, plus the USA and Canada.

Whereas welcoming a few couple dozen embassy personnel who had been flown again to Mexico, the diplomat additionally lashed out at Ecuador’s “bodily aggression” on the embassy. She additionally reiterated plans to hunt additional worldwide rebukes for the federal government of President Daniel Noboa over the incident.

Earlier on Sunday, Britain turned the newest nation to sentence Ecuador’s incursion into the embassy, in accordance with a international workplace assertion.

Mexico’s ambassador to Ecuador, Raquel Serur, flanked Barcena on the ceremony.

“President Noboa made a mistake by taking a choice that did not simply break with all established worldwide conventions, however it additionally confirmed ignorance of the truth of his nation,” mentioned Serur, including that the president “does not perceive” that people could be supplied with asylum protections with out judging their innocence or guilt.

Ecuadorean police arrested Glas, who served as vp to leftist former President Rafael Correa, as a result of ongoing corruption prices.

Final week, Noboa’s authorities declared Serur persona non grata as a consequence of what it known as “unlucky” feedback by Mexico’s president, who had weighed in on final yr’s presidential race in Ecuador claiming that media manipulation following a candidate assassination led to his fellow leftist’s loss.