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  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from April 1st to April 7th, 2024 - The Heydey of Juche - COTW: Democratic People's Republic of KoreaEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Latin American countries condemn Ecuador raid on Mexico embassy

    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.

    During the incident, which took place late on Friday night, special forces equipped with a battering ram surrounded the Mexican embassy in Quito’s financial district, and at least one agent scaled the walls to extract Glas.

    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 President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blasted the unusual diplomatic incursion and arrest as an “authoritarian” act as well as a breach of international law and Mexico’s sovereignty, while the government of Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa argued asylum protections were illegal because of the corruption charges Glas is facing.

    Still, under international law, embassies are considered the sovereign territory of the country they represent, and the Vienna Convention, which governs international relations, states that a country cannot intrude upon an embassy on its territory.

    The United States also said it condemns any violation of the convention protecting diplomatic missions and encouraged “the two countries to resolve their differences in accord with international norms”.

    Mexico withdraws diplomats from its embassy in Ecuador after raid

    Mexico has withdrawn personnel from its embassy in Ecuador following the unprecedented storming of the building by security forces, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said.

    The diplomats and their families went to Quito airport accompanied by the ambassadors of Germany, Panama, Cuba and Honduras, as well as the president of the Ecuador-Mexico Chamber, and are scheduled to travel on a commercial airline to Mexico City, the country’s foreign ministry added in a separate statement.

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “alarmed” by the raid, while Spain and the European Union both issued stinging statements condemning it as a violation of the Vienna Convention.

    From both articles we can tell that pretty much no one backs Ecuador here, the international protections embassies enjoy today are one of the most important in international law and if you break them you can easily become an international pariah state which in the current globalized world it can fuck you over especially if your economic policies are based on the neoliberal model like in Ecuador which dependent on the world economic system.

    here in Mexico i have seen a few small personalities try to blame AMLO for the crisis but they are inconsequential clowns, all 3 presidential candidates and the PRI party have all backed the President in cutting relations with some calling for harsher santions on Ecuador, this is really good for the President’s candidate Claudia Sheinbaum since any support AMLO gets she can convert in votes for her, the at the polls of January and February have her at 60% of the vote, while the next rival is only at 32%.

    Also it wasnt mention in this articles but Ecuador may get suspended from Mercosur too, in the end its was terrible idea by Ecuador they propably thought they may get backed by the EUA as some people thought here but the EUA will always backed its main trade partner in the region first over a regime they may have backed in the first place, something similar happen with Guatemala in the past too.

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