Ecuador, in uncertainty –

QUITO (EFE).— Ecuador continues to be uncertain about the consequences that the violent police raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito and the consequent rupture of bilateral relations decreed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will bring to the country.

The government of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa justified this invasion because it had to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, accused of alleged corruption and who had taken refuge in that diplomatic headquarters awaiting political asylum, which Mexico finally granted a few hours before his arrest. and transfer to a maximum security prison.

Previously, Ecuador had declared “persona non grata” the Mexican ambassador Raquel Serur, who this Sunday returned to her country with all the staff of the diplomatic legation that she directed and with the support of several ambassadors from friendly countries who went to say goodbye to her in the Quito airport.

Mexico, which received the unanimous support of the American community, will file a complaint in the international justice system for the grievance caused by Ecuador, now vulnerable even to financial and commercial sanctions, according to several analysts.

The government of Ecuador, which received almost total condemnation from the international community, has tried to justify its actions under the argument of its fight against corruption within the framework of a war declared by President Daniel Noboa against the organized crime that overwhelms his country. country.

The Ecuadorian Executive identified Glas, bishop of former President Rafael Correa, as the torch of its anti-corruption fight, and recalled that he had already been convicted of illicit association and bribery, in addition to being investigated in another case of embezzlement of public funds.

Glas, who denies such charges and says he is a victim of political and judicial persecution, hopes that the local justice system will process a habeas corpus request filed by his defense, which considers his arrest illegal.

Beyond the judicial and political implications at home, Noboa’s actions in the crisis with Mexico are subject to interpretations regarding the external repercussions of the event.

There are Ecuadorian analysts who warn of an excess of confidence and caprice in the official action at the Mexican Embassy, ​​motivated according to them by the struggle between Correismo and anti-Correismo, a political duality that has marked the life of the country in the last 17 years.

However, sociologists such as Professor Napoleón Saltos presume that perceptions about the national sovereignty of States and the application and respect for international legal instruments have also been put into play.

For this reason, he opined that what happened at the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador could well be considered an experiment to interpret other contexts in international political relations and that, according to him, it has a precedent in the recent Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria. .

For now, the professor said, the Organization of American States (OAS) and other regional integration organizations should overcome the speech of condemnation and formulate firmer responses regarding the principles of sovereignty that govern the region.

Above all, formulations that prevent new events similar to those that have led to the current situation between Ecuador and Mexico.