Governments across Latin America have rallied around Mexico after security forces in Ecuador stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest a controversial politician who had been granted political asylum there.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela sharply rebuked Ecuador on Saturday, hours after the seizure of Ecuador’s former Vice President Jorge Glas, with Nicaragua joining Mexico in severing diplomatic ties with Quito.
The 54-year-old politician is wanted on corruption charges and has been holed up inside the Mexican embassy since seeking political asylum in December.
Mexican authorities granted that request on Friday.
Following his arrest, Glas could be seen on video circulating on social media being taken by a police convoy to the airport in Quito, flanked by heavily armed soldiers. He then boarded a plane en route to a jail in Guayaquil, the Andean nation’s largest city.
Al Jazeera’s John Holman reports from Mexico City.
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Looks like Ecuador took a page out of Israel’s bag of unlawful tricks.
Why protect a corrupt politician… Mexico is also very corrupt country that hold there own citizens back… Look what el Salvador has accomplished turned one of the most dangerous countries in the world to the safest country in Latin America by getting rid of corrupt politicians.. and the Gangs they were protecting…
Mexican president is a socialist trash, good for equator
Corruptos deben de estar en poder de eso viven like the most famous man now 😂
Yo no me eh mvamti los violaciones de derechos humanos egg n eh l m6ndk
Mexican government gave asylum to a corrupt sentenced ex president, they knew what they were doing and its not fisrt time mexicans get involved on internal affaires of southamericans countries.
America keeps Mexico weak & poor at their doorstep. Only makes sense Mexico would do the exact same to Ecuador. They just got caught doing it is all this is about. A chaotic distraction away from the truth that Mexico is somehow in deep cahoots with this fellow, and appears to be trying to get their man out alive for fear of what he may say about the dynamics & possible financials of their joint relationship & what those plans for the future were to look like.
Has Ecuador got deep links with Israel?
Oh well, a tempest in the Latin American teapot. There will be melodrama, and maybe someone will write a song or paint some protest art, but nothing more. Yawn. 😀
It is ironic that the country that sheltered Julián Assange protected by the inviolability of embassies has violently raided the Mexican embassy with police and military personnel.
Following Israel’s lead
Mexican drug cartel using embassy as a base of operations.
Mexico does not need to listen to ecuador, mexico is an independent country they can grant asylum to whoever they want
EXACTLY
Mexico likes to think of itself as more important in global affairs than it really is. It’s been put in it’s place.
Begin evethink ….its. Usa jajajja
Yes, it is. Mexico’s president AMLO has been running his mouth off to the USA for far too long, he got smacked by the USA, simple.
Nuclear option in politics
Mexico, by tradition since the WWII give asylum to any who request it, Mexico doesn’t have diplomatic issues with none. A hypothetic war or militar conflict between Mexico and ecuador guess who’ll win? Brasil and Mexico have the biggest and strongest army forces in LATAM so this is not a discussion. For the Mexican government ecuador doesn’t exist. Isn’t even a comercial partner, they are not helpful in anything to Mexico. This small country isn’t rival in many aspects. There’s more behind this irruption, Noboa born, raised and educated in the EEUU…… so people get ur own conclusions.
Latin america wetties are involved in the drug trade. They are angry at a country cleaning the trash
Y 🇺🇸 calla.
It seems respect for law is ending all over the world . We looking into the barbaric times
Sanction them and then help panama build a wall 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol, will Mexico pay for it?
B”H
Israel bombed the Iranian embassy
AMLO protecting or trying to protect every corrupt president and ex-presidents in Latin America
the death of democracy and the decline of having treaties from the 1950s are becoming a thing of the past
Looks like trud style of government. Soon other countries will copy what the Ecuadorian government did….
Mexican communist dictator Lopez Obrador from Mexico not only sends criminals and drugs in to the United sates but also controls the cocaine. Empire through his cartel of Puebla called “ Grupo Puebla”
Lopez Obrador uses the Mexican embassies to give shelter and help criminals, drug traffickers and terrorist escape the authorities in their own countries and also uses the Mexican embassies to store and send cocaine for the Mexican Drug cartels.
Mexico had months to hand him over for justice, they weighed the risk and thought it was best to do so, the rest of us just need to accept it, Mexico is no one’s friend ask Americans, they pour millions of people illegally into our country with guns and drugs, now they are trying land claims in the USA.
Ecuador……serving the american Empire….ecuador is a puppy
mExIcO serving the cartel empire 😂😂
Ecuador had a chance to file a complaint against Mexico and they chose to invade a foreign nation. Also, Mexico can decide who is convicted and who is not. If Ecuador had decided their ex-vice president was a criminal Mexico could still decide on his fate. Ecuador did not respect that. Hence they will be sanctioned by most countries.
USA and Canada better watch their back…
The Ecuadorian vice president was taken from the embassy literally going through corruption charges and accepting money from mexican cartel. but he ran to the mexican embassy (where his cartel friends were keeping him safe) Him, Correa, and Lasso worked with the mexican cartel and allowed them to traffick drugs through Ecuador..
The report failed to mention that Mexico offered asylum based on reviewing the case and finding that the charges against Glas were just the state trying to persecute a left wing opponent. Ecuador is currently in the hands on the corrupt oligarcs headed by the son of the riches man in Ecuador.
Won’t be surprised if the U,S.A. has something to do with it… notorious getting involved in others problems…
If this guy was in jail. In ecuador why they didnt keep in jail .why the let him out of prision . Because soon as he get out of jail .he asked the asylum . In the embasy in mexico . Why they didnt keep looked in jail.
Mexico always protects criminals
A bunch of right wing morons will defend these actions but like why would you be okay with any country setting precedent being able to invade embassies left and right without any consequences. I am trying to live a peaceful existence I ain’t trying to live through WW3.
But why? I mean he is probably corrupt or sth. But he is not a mass murderer or terrorist. It’s just not worth it. Seems kind of stupid… thy could have got him later at the airport or what ever.
THIS US WHAT ISRAEL IS TEACHING THE WORLD
Tanto escándalo por un delincuente
Yo soy originario de Costa Rica pues la verdad sinceramente honestamente quiero formarme parte de México todo Centroamérica hasta Panamá queremos formar parte de México Cómo sus estados de México ejemplo Belice es el estado 33
Guatemala es el estado 34 Honduras es el estado 35 Salvador en el estado 36 Nicaragua es el estado 37 Costa Rica es el estado 38 Panamá es el estado 39
Todo Centroamérica hasta Panamá queremos formar parte de México con sus estados que yo mencionado viva México querido México viva la verdadera madre patria mexicana te amo muchísimo México querido México
❤❤❤
Amen hermano. Sabias que Yucatan, y Chiapas eran paises antes de la independencia de Mexico?
@@artemisworshiper2010 Yucatán siempre será de México
Going after a embassy is a act of war. This is why the world is agreeing with Mexico. Same with the Iranian embassy or any anywhere.
What the Ecuadorian dictator Daniel novia just did is called in the USA a political persecution a por witch hunt. Only because, Daniel novoa has been found to be laundering money to himself and self loathing under the table!
This is offensive as it gets. ecuadorians give back Jorge Glas (for he is under Mexico’s protection) and give the usurper, they have as president, as a peace offering. As a Mexican, I wish the best for my ecuadorian brothers.
Well they are taking the Zionists breach of international law as an example..IS not REAL bombed Iranian embassy few days ago
Ecuador is 🐖🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
GLAS was already sentenced for fraud and escaped house arrest. Mexico shouldn’t assisted and worry about it’s own narco problems (30,000 deaths 2023)
Mi pregunta es si fuera embajada americana ellos irba entra así?
Well you can all thank Israel for this debacle,there is no international law,its been proven for the last 6 months, welcome to the new norm
Embassies are like The Continental hotels from John Wick. They are untouchable
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Remember when Israel attacked the Iranian embassy? I think I saw that in the news for 1 day. No word after…
Unlike most of the third world, Latin America have done a good job of respecting embassies, consulates, and diplomatic rights in general. This is a disheartening turn of events.
As a Mexican, i agree that Ecuador has all the right to judge their own people, but does not have the right to storm our embassy
Political asylum is a flawed practice because it can be used by both parties involved as a means to push ulterior agendas not in the interests of the people
Respect Mexico’s Embassy. And also Respect Mexico!
The president of Ecuador was born in the USA, he is a CIA agent working for the cartels of the US
Alerta máximo. La guerra avión contra ecuador
Vale verga mejico!!! Váyase a vender su droga a la casa de su abuela
US says UN Security Council resolutions are just “guidelines” now, Israel bombs an embassy, Ecuador raids another… Just me, or are these connected? Did 🇺🇲 set a trend? (Are they at least regretful?)
Does anyone remember how Julian Assange was holed up for years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and they just one day fed him to the British authorities? I see a similar picture emerging here in that it seems as though Ecuador doesn’t understand the concept of embassies, asylums and diplomatic immunity especially now that America has helped them build a Super Maximum prison while being led by American-trained banana farmer now the leader of Ecuador called Noboa. I hope Mexico doesn’t take this infringement on their sovereignty lightly as just poor neighbours that must withstand the insult to, instead, unleash their hounds in the drug trade to topple the fool that now leads the Ecuadorian nation and has eroded the groundswell of support this leader might have secured if he had been soft and/or chosen a more tempered approach in the “war on drugs”. I see this incident as heralding bad omens for the Ecuadorean leader, Noboa, as he is an emperor without clothes – and a proper education to boot (although Noboa has shored up an impressive array of honorary degrees likely due to daddy’s endowments) trying to cleanse himself of political opposition instead of being a real man and embracing it.
Who can believe the puff propaganda that his second wife, the “sea honey” or water nymph, was born in Chone, Ecuador, anyways, but yet educated at an American high school in Ecuador? While American universities exist, to my knowledge, American high schools on foreign soils do not. I am also surprised how deeply internalized oppression must run in the veins of Ecuadorians to be able to stomach Noboa’s Yankee wife replete with veneers and that obsessively chiseled physique that is so popular among trite American “princesses”. Pure vomit.
Una Rata es una Rata y hay quee atraparla
It is interference in a country’s internal affairs if another country grants asylum to a convicted criminal, whether on embassy grounds or not. Find out what involvement the Mexican government has with J. Glas’s corruption. Ecuador warned Mexico repeatedly not to interfere!
Instead to talk about, who is their real enemy, they attacked Mexicos Embassy. The misery what they living trough is coming from more of the North. Think before you attack anybody of your kind.
AMLO 🇲🇽is carteIs’ servant and friend of dictators
Sounds like Ecuador needs some liberation
Yes is very difficult to find a good president ,because the whole population are corrupted .
Corruption is part of their culture.
Mexico should have been expelled from Ecuador long time ago for protecting narco criminals operating inside the country and having a free pass to Mexico.
Shem on 🩴🩴🩴America🇺🇸🇮🇱
For a quick second I thought Jerry Springer was into politics. RIP🙏🏽
RIP EQUADOR
Imagine a scenario where Donald Trump escapes to the Russian embassy to avoid prison then the U.S. Marshalls invade the embassy to arrest Trump. No embassy should be used to harbor criminals; that’s not what embassies were intended for
ECUADOR MUST BE PUNISHED … THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST SAVAGE THING EVER, NOT EVEN SEEN IN DICTATOR TIMES…. NOW IT IS MORE THAN CLEAR THAT WHAT THEY DID TO THE FORMER VICEPRESIDENT IS POLITICAL PERSECUTION…
I have a feeling America will support Ecuador……watch this space!!!!!
No asylum for Criminals period
That’s a declaration of war 🤦🏽♂️
Mexico has done a good job at making it difficult for the DEA to run their cartels in Mexico. DEA is moving their cartels to Ecuador.
This is all USA.
Countries should deploy their embassies with soldiers.
NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugolavia, in 1995. The U.S. said it was a misidentification.
This is completely unacceptable. Is the current Ecuadorian government right wing, because if so this should be a war against the far right
Ecuador’s president just turn Ecuador into a real “banana republic”
Ahi esta el primer dictador ecuatoriano
Good, he is a criminal.
You people are out of control. Please come to the U S. We need more lawlessness!
CIA was definitely in on it but anyway
Ecuadorian embassies all over the world can be entered at will by any country.
As a mexican we condemned the actions of Ecuador and Israel for violation of territory and to disrespect the convention of Vienna plus we want the embassador out of Mexico
Ecuador politicians are corrupt Pueblo!Pueblo! Pueblo!!! UNIDO jamas sera Vensido
I figure they might make an example out of Ecuador as a deterant for anyone else even thinking about it. Nice knowing you Ecuador.
Mexico president so calm it’s a set up they want Mexico to go crazy . We just got lithium
No se porque pero creo existe algo adicional a la reacción de Ecuador provocando a México. Algun interes existira por otro lado de que México sea atacado ?? Cual será la razón ? Sus riquezas naturales? El respeto entre las naciones es la paz y esto se debe cuidar pues ni el pueblo Ecuatoriano ni el mexicano quiere pelear entre ellos
Ecuador y México firmaron el tratado de la haya., así q esto e una invasión sin sustento., así q nos vemos en cortes internacionales
WELL ECUADOR BREAK INTERNAL LAW YES… BUT MEXICO TOO TO GIVE ASYLUM TO A CRIMINAL CORRUPT GOV MEMBER. SO BOTH SHOULD RECEIVE SANCTIONS N THAT ALL PROBLEM SOLVE
Quel que soit ce qui est reproché à cet homme, l’immunité d’une ambassade est sacro-sainte et ceci est la boite de pandore … je ne sais pas à quoi à quoi ils s’attendent mais ceci leur sera rappelé un jour.
Job well done Ecuador, let’s pray 🙏 other decent countries take you example that there should be no place to criminals in politics. Viva Ecuador 😂
Mexico is weak. They can’t even handle the cartels.
These actions by Ecuador are totally unacceptable, technically they invaded Mexican territory, if the international community does not strongly condemn this, then who is next? embassies of the USA or its allies in Africa or the Middle East??
Thank you for covering this
The man ecuador police went to get out of the embassy is a political persecuted in Ecuador the government of Ecuador is claiming false accusations in order to make this matter legal
Ecuador👍 No immunity for diplomats!
Mexico covers up criminals and corrupts from varios latin countries
Mexico covers and protects ”the cartel”’
“el narco”
mexico is not an exemplar country
mexico incits people from other countries cross the border with USA from your teritory illegally
UNITED STATES OF AMERIC OR EUROPE
And in contrast, the mexican president send the Police to protect the ecuatorian embassy for looting, thats a true political, classy, way of telling them we are not the same, we wont put people in danger because of the stupid politic elite