Caracas [Venezuela], April 8: Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil on Sunday slammed "the complicit silence" of the United States and Canada on the storming of the Mexican embassy in Ecuador by the local police as "shameful, but not surprising."
In the night from Friday to Saturday, the Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito using armed vehicles to arrest former Ecuadorian President Jorge Glas, who had been sheltering in the diplomatic mission for a long time, media reported. Following the events, Mexico City suspended diplomatic ties with Quito.
"The complicit silence of the US and Canadian governments regarding the kidnapping of Jorge Glas and the violation of Mexican sovereignty by the government of Ecuador is a shameful, but not surprising act. Accustomed to instrumentalizing international law to attack sovereign nations, they [the US and Canada] remain silent before the true face and barbarities perpetrated by their lackeys," Gil said on X.
Latin America will find a way to "restore justice," he added.
On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called Ecuador's actions "an act of barbarism."
Glas served five years in prison for bribery and criminal conspiracy before being released in late 2022.
However, already in December 2023, he was sentenced to six more years in prison in a corruption case involving Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, currently known as Novonor. Glas took refuge in the Mexican diplomatic mission in the same month, before an official warrant for his arrest was issued.
On April 5, 2024, Mexico granted Glas political asylum. Ecuador called Mexico's decision illegal and demanded the extradition of the politician. (Sputnik)
Source: Qatar Tribune
