Representatives of the October 2 Committee went to the exterior of the diplomatic headquarters with posters and banners in which they expressed gratitude to the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador for “saving the life of Glas, bastion of the Citizen Revolution.”

One of the participants in this Friday’s sit-in was the Ecuadorian Rosa Pacheco, who considers the former vice-governor a politically persecuted person.

The legal proceedings against her are fraudulent, there is no evidence of her guilt, Pacheco told Prensa Latina.

On Thursday night it was learned that the former official officially requested political asylum from Mexico while he is in the diplomatic legation after the Prosecutor’s Office requested his appearance for investigations.

Also this Thursday, the National Assembly rejected a new criminal prosecution against the former vice president, however, the Prosecutor’s Office issued a statement insisting on requesting a date for a hearing to formulate charges for alleged embezzlement in works carried out after the 2016 earthquake.

Glas, who was vice president of Rafael Correa (2007-2017) and Lenín Moreno (2017-2021), was behind bars for five years and received the benefit of pre-release on November 28, 2022, after the unification of two prison sentences of six and eight years for the Odebrecht and Bribery cases. Last Sunday he entered the Mexican embassy for fear of being arrested again.

The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry today informed the Mexican government that, in its opinion, granting asylum to Glas would not be legal and they summoned ambassador Raquel Serur to his headquarters in Quito. The politician, a member of the RC, is considered one of the symbols of “lawfare” in Ecuador, where the persecution unleashed by the Moreno government against Correa followers forced many of them to go into exile.

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