“Starting tomorrow we are going to the ICJ where we are presenting this sad case (…) We believe we can win this case quickly“said the Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Bárcena. when receiving the Mexican diplomatic personnel who returned from Ecuador.
After withdrawing all its staff, Mexico closed its embassy in Quito this Sunday. The group of 18 people, made up of officials and their families, moved to the airport accompanied by the ambassadors of Germany, Panama, Cuba and Honduras, who ensured that their integrity was respected.
“Our diplomatic staff left everything in Ecuador and returned home with their heads and the name of Mexico held high after an assault on our embassy,” Foreign Minister Bárcena reported on the X social network. The Mexicans traveled in a commercial airline after sending a military airplane due to tensions.
At night they arrived in Mexico City. “Welcome colleagues on behalf of President López Obrador. All of Mexico recognizes the defense they made of our sovereigntyrisking his physical integrity, in the face of this unprecedented outrage to the immunity of the Mexican embassy in Ecuador,” Bárcena later thanked.
Mexico declared the breaking of relations with Ecuador
The press has been summoned for a message from the delegation, led by the ambassador Raquel Serur, who was declared “persona non grata” by Quito, and the head of mission, Roberto Canseco, who was subdued by police during Friday’s raid.
The departure of the diplomats occurs after the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared the breakup of relations for the entry of police into the embassy, an event never seen in the world that has been condemned by Latin American countries and also by the United States. Nicaragua emulated Mexico and on Saturday also broke relations with Ecuador.
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations have also rejected this action that attacks “the inviolability” of diplomatic facilities enshrined in the Vienna Convention of 1961. This Sunday, Spain and the UnYoon European they joined the rejection pointing out the need to respect international standards.
What were the triggers of the crisis between Ecuador and Mexico?
The diplomatic crisis It started on Wednesday when Lopez Obrador raised a parallel between the violence that marked the campaign presidential Ecuador of 2023, during which it was murdered the candidate Fernando Villavicencio, and the crime that is recorded in Mexico facing the elections from June 2nd.
According to the Mexican president, the Villavicencio crime created a “rarefied atmosphere of violence” which caused the drop in the polls of the leftist candidate Luisa González and the rise of Daniel Noboa, who was the winner.
Quito declared on Thursday persona “non grata” the Mexican ambassador, what Lopez Obrador responded on Friday by granting asylum to Glas, accused of corruption and vice president in the government of Rafael Correa (2013-2018), who had been at the diplomatic headquarters since December claiming to be politically persecuted.
On Saturday, the Ecuadorian government invaded sovereign territory of Mexico by force entering the diplomatic headquarters in Quito. Through an unprecedented operation in history, the agents captured Glas and triggered a crisis with the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The Ecuadorian president Noboa defended the operation by describing the protection of Glas as an “illicit”, alleging an “abuse of the immunities and privileges” granted to the diplomatic mission. On Saturday, the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld justified the action arguing that there was “a real risk of imminent flight” from Glas.
Mexico, which for a century has received politically persecuted people from different countries, claimed that the right to asylum is “sacred” and denounced the assault on his embassy as “a” flagrant violation of international law” and its “sovereignty.”
Source: Ambito
