Daniel Lozano

Updated Saturday, April 6, 2024-20:24

  • Diplomatic tension Mexico and Ecuador break diplomatic relations after the assault on the embassy in Quito and the arrest of Correísta Glas

  • International Law Ecuador opens a dangerous Pandora's box with the assault on the Mexican embassy

The former revolutionary vice president Jorge Glas needed the help of the police guarding him to access the

maximum security prison of La Roca

, in Guayaquil. He did so handcuffed and with a visible limp, after the sudden police action that forcibly removed him from the Mexican embassy in Quito.

Glas saw firsthand that in the Americas one cannot claim victory lightly: the surprise is hidden very close. "You can't beat someone who never gives up!" He shouted triumphantly on Friday on his social networks upon learning that the Government of Mexico had granted him

political asylum

, despite requests against Ecuador. A decision just hours before the

night assault

, which caused the rupture of diplomatic relations between both countries, in a crescendo crisis that was not remembered on the continent.

The North American country considers

the assault on its embassy a "

flagrant violation of international law and the sovereignty of Mexico

." Even the governor of Mexico has asked her citizens not to go to the Ecuadorian embassy to avoid "acts of provocation or violence."

The command of the Security Block (made up of police and military) needed just 10 minutes to end a stay of almost four months and the controversial asylum granted by the Aztec president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who hours before directly insulted the Ecuadorian president , Daniel Noboa, whom he called a "facho."

"Jorge has difficulty walking because he was beaten. All this is crazy. No matter how conceited Noboa is, it is stupid to believe that he will go unpunished," protested former president

Rafael Correa

, a fugitive from the Ecuadorian Justice for a

corruption

case in the that Glas, his trusted man for years, is also involved. In the first photo distributed by the police forces, the leader of the Citizen Revolution appeared sitting inside an armored vehicle, also

handcuffed and with half his belly exposed

.

Glas had already suffered five years in prison for bribery and illicit association, but the new revelations of the

metastasis case

led to a new arrest warrant against him. Prosecutor

Diana Salazar

revealed that drug trafficker

Leandro Norero

, later murdered, bribed the judge who ordered Glas' release. The former vice president is also accused of

sexual harassment

, made by one of his closest collaborators.

"No criminal can be considered politically persecuted. Since the immunities and privileges granted have been abused, contrary to the conventional legal framework, his capture has been proceeded with," the Noboa Government explained in a statement.

López Obrador provoked the escalation of recent days, which also led to the

expulsion of the Mexican ambassador

, by insinuating the political benefit obtained by the Ecuadorian president after the assassination of candidate

Fernando Villavicencio

just 10 days before the polls opened in the first presidential return. Some words that provoked the rejection of Verónica Sarauz, the widow of the investigative journalist.

It so happens that in the judicial process being followed against those who hired the seven Colombian hitmen (later murdered in prison) their membership in the

Los Lobos

gang , allies of the Mexican cartel

Jalisco Nueva Generación

, has been confirmed .

"If two countries with deep problems and shared links with drug trafficking fight and break relations, the only ones who benefit are the drug traffickers," said analyst

Matías Abad

. The Ecuadorian Government decreed a state of internal conflict at the beginning of January to

combat drug trafficking

, which has turned the Andean country into the most dangerous on the continent.