Mexico announced that it severed diplomatic ties with Ecuador after Ecuadorean police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas, who sought asylum there, on Friday.
The sudden raid was what made President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, break off diplomatic relations with Ecuador on Friday evening.
Mexican secretary of foreign relations, Alicia Bárcena, posted on social media platform X that several diplomats suffered injuries during the break-in, which she claimed violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Gabriela Sommerfeld, told the media on Saturday that President Daniel Noboa decided to enter the embassy after considering Glas’s “imminent flight risk” and exhausted all possibilities for dialogue with Mexico.
Glas, convicted of corruption charges in Ecuador, had been taking refuge in the Mexican embassy since December. Ecuador argues that granting asylum to Glas violates diplomatic norms, and his arrest is legitimate.