On X, Belloso described as “serious violation of international law” the assault in Quito of the Mexican diplomatic headquarters by Ecuadorian military troops.

Those incidents set a serious precedent in Latin America, the path must always be respect for the law, dialogue and consensus, never the use of force, the legislator pointed out.

On Friday evening, April 5, the Ecuadorian National Police entered the Mexican Embassy with armored cars and kidnapped former Vice President Jorge Glas, who was there as a political asylum seeker.

The surprising aggression was considered by the Mexican Government as a flagrant violation of international law and the country’s sovereignty and President Manuel Lopez Obrador ordered the immediate severance of relations.

The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations establishes that the premises of diplomatic legations are inviolable and that agents of the receiving State may not enter them without the consent of the head of the mission.

The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summoned its member countries to an urgent meeting to address Ecuador’s raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, in order to arrest the former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas (2013-2018), who received political asylum in that diplomatic headquarters, Honduran President Xiomara Castro informed.

“Given the evident violation of the Convention on Asylum and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by the Ecuadorian Government, as it took by force the Mexican Embassy in Quito, I urgently convene the Troika of CELAC for this Monday, April 8, and the foreign ministers for Tuesday, April 9′, Castro indicated on X.

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