2024-04-09 18:00:00
In the midst of diplomatic tension between Ecuador and Mexico for the entry of the police into the Mexican embassy in Ecuador to take away the former vice president Jorge GlasThe president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, revealed a video from internal cameras in which unpublished details of the assault on the diplomatic headquarters are seen.
The images were released by López Obrador this Tuesday, in his morning press conference. They show how a dozen armed officers violently enter the Mexican embassy in Quito and point weapons at the diplomatic staff.
Edited with suspenseful music, at the beginning of the video that lasts just over two minutes, the officers are seen at the top of the entrance gate and then explanations appear: “The head of the chancellery, Roberto Canseco, tried to stop the security personnel. He pointed a firearm at the embassy library.”
In the same images you can see the police forcefully capturing former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had taken refuge there to request political asylum from the Mexican Government. And they take him away holding him by his hands and feet, hanging. Meanwhile, the armed police struggle with the employees of the Mexican embassy who are trying to prevent Glas’s kidnapping.
The images also show how unauthorized vehicles entered the Mexican embassy in Quito.
“Mexico is respected. We cannot let an issue like this pass. We cannot remain silent, it would be faint-hearted if we were to remain silent in the face of such an outrage and not inform the people of Mexico,” said López Obrador when showing the images, until the unknown moment of the assault on the diplomatic headquarters, which aroused the repudiation of the countries of the region.
López Obrador also criticized the position taken by the United States and Canada after the incident and stated that both governments made “very ambiguous statements.”
In the case of the United States, the Mexican president questioned that the State Department’s statement only made a call to seek reconciliation “without speaking out against this authoritarian act,” which he attributed to the fact that “they want to maintain relations just like those who have friendship with us.”
López Obrador also regretted that President Joe Biden has not commented on the event as other leaders did.
Members of an elite corps of the Ecuadorian Police break into the Mexican Embassy to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas. Photo: EFE/ José JácomeJorge Glas’s health
The former vice president of Ecuador Jorge Glas, arrested last Friday after a police raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, was detained again in jail after having recovered in a hospital from a decompensation that a police report attributes to a possible drug overdose. and that the prison authorities relate to his refusal to eat food.
The National Service of Comprehensive Care for Adults Deprived of Liberty
ad (SNAI), the State penitentiary agency, indicated without further details that “he has just entered the Deprivation of Liberty Center” of La Roca, the country’s maximum security prison.
Glas remained under medical observation for the last few hours at the Naval Hospital in the city of Guayaquil.
The SNAI indicated that Glas had “stable health parameters and within the normal range”, so he could receive the corresponding medical discharge.
The penitentiary agency had announced that during the course of this Tuesday, in “strict compliance with security protocols”, Glas will return to La Roca, where he was detained after his arrest at the Mexican Embassy.
In that prison, the SNAI noted, “the protection of the physical integrity” of Glas will be ensured.
Jorge Glas, former vice president of Ecuador.. Photo: Rwuters/Daniel TapiaAndrés Villegas, Glas’s lawyer, considered the SNAI statement to be brief and complained about the lack of official information about the real situation surrounding Glas’s health breakdown that occurred on Monday.
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