Highlights: Police officers burst into the Mexican embassy on Friday to arrest the former vice-president Jorge Glas who took refuge there. Mexican diplomatic staff based in Quito left Ecuador on Sunday. Mexico announced its intention to refer the matter to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial body of the United Nations. The state of exception ended last night in Ecuador as did the mandatory curfew in the most violent areas. Thanks to the declaration of armed internal conflict last January, the military will continue to circulate in the streets of the country.

The irruption of the police into the premises of the Mexican embassy to arrest a former vice-president wanted by the courts continues to cause shock waves throughout the world. The staff…

Burst into the Mexican embassy in Ecuador: a risky gamble for President Noboa

The irruption of the police into the premises of the Mexican embassy to arrest a former vice-president wanted by the courts continues to cause shock waves throughout the world. Mexican embassy and consulate staff returned to Mexico. Internationally, Ecuador is today very isolated, a risk that President Noboa was clearly prepared to take.

Employees of the Mexican Embassy in Quito left Ecuador on Sunday April 7. AFP - ROLANDO ENRIQUEZ

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in Ecuador,

Éric Samson

From the European Union to the United Nations via the Organization of American States (OAS),

Ecuador is unanimously against him

after

police officers burst into the Mexican embassy on Friday

to arrest the former vice -president Jorge Glas who took refuge there. Even two close countries like the United States and Argentina have not endorsed the breaking of the sacrosanct inviolability of embassies.

For political scientist Gustavo Isch, President Daniel Noboa has opened Pandora's box. “

It's terrible because, at the international level, it reduces Ecuador to the rank of a banana republic, a country where we cannot invest in complete security because the conditions of legal security are not met because at any time, depending on of its interests, the power in place can change the rules of the game

,” he believes.

Mexican diplomatic staff based in Quito left Ecuador on Sunday. Mexico announced its intention to refer the matter to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial body of the United Nations, on Monday.

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If international condemnation is strong, it is not the same inside the country, according to Colonel Mario Pazmiño, political analyst and former head of intelligence of the Ecuadorian armed forces. “

I believe that the population supports the president's decision and we will see it during the referendum on security on April 21

[which proposes to toughen the legislation against delinquency and to authorize the extradition of traffickers, Editor's note]

” underlines- he.

Ecuadorians are tired of the impunity enjoyed by these delinquents who make fun of us, who use and abuse international treaties like the convention on political asylum.

The fact remains that President Noboa took a big risk to appear as a strong man, to win the next referendum and why not re-election next year.

The state of exception ended last night in Ecuador as did the mandatory curfew in the most violent areas. Thanks to the declaration of armed internal conflict last January, the military will continue to circulate in the streets of the country.

Burst into the Mexican embassy in Ecuador: a risky gamble for President Noboa

Burst into the Mexican embassy in Ecuador: a risky gamble for President Noboa

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