Correa's vice president, in a maximum security prison after the assault on the Mexican embassy. "You can't beat someone who never gives up!" he shouted triumphantly on Friday on his social networks.

A decision just hours before the night assault caused the rupture of diplomatic relations between both countries. The Ecuadorian Government decreed a state of internal conflict at the beginning of January to combat drug trafficking. It so happens that in the judicial process being followed against those who hired the seven Colombian hitmen, their membership in the Los Lobos gang has been confirmed.