QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian police officers on Friday forcibly broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito, where former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas is holed up.
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorian police officers on Friday forcibly broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito, where former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas is holed up. The raid took place hours after the Mexican government granted Glas political asylum as diplomatic tensions between both countries deepen.
The police broke the external doors of the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in the Ecuadorian capital and entered the main patio. The situation of former Vice President Glas was not immediately known. Uniformed officers closed the main access avenue to the site.A day earlier, tensions between the two countries escalated after Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made statements that Ecuador considered “very unfortunate” about the last elections in which the Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa won.Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.
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