“Not even under the Videla dictatorship”: Venezuela’s energetic refusal to the police invasion of the Mexican embassy in Ecuador

The government of Venezuela issued a strong denunciation of Ecuador for its police force’s invasion of the Mexican embassy in that country to arrest convicted former vice president Jorge Glas, and compared the event with the dictatorships of Argentina and Chile in the 70s.

Nicolás Maduro’s regime expressed its rejection of what happened Friday night at the Mexican embassy in Quito, when Ecuadorian security forces “illegally raided and captured former vice president Jorge Glas, to whom the Mexican government had granted asylum”. of the atrocious persecution of which he was the victim”.

“All this constitutes an action that not even in the most atrocious dictatorships in the region, like that of Augusto Pinochet in Chile or Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentinaan event like today’s was recorded,” the note adds.

The Venezuelan government also compares Ecuador to “Israel’s criminal regime” for the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria, and cites as precedent the storming of the Venezuelan embassy in Uruguay in 1976 “by the government of Juan María Bordaberry, within the framework of the implementation of the well-known US-backed Cóndor Plan”.

On the other hand, given “the excessive lack of modesty and common sense on the part of the Ecuadorian authorities”, Venezuela has alerted the governments of the world “of the possible onset of a period of terror for Ecuador, where neo-fascism would manifest itself as an extreme and totalitarian ideology“.

Finally, he reiterates his “deepest condemnation” for what happened and expresses his “absolute support for the people and government of Mexico”.

Cuba and Honduras joined in the rejection

Another of the governments that rejected Ecuadorian interference was the Cuban one. His Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, called the event “a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, of the right to asylum and of the sovereignty of Mexico,” as he expressed it in a message on the social network

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel posted a similar message. “The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which is an essential component of international law, must be respected by all,” the president wrote in

Honduras also expressed its opinion on the matter, with a strong rejection of Ecuadorian actions.

“The assault on the Mexican Embassy by the government of Ecuador, with the aim of kidnapping former Vice President J. Glass, constitutes an intolerable act for the international community,” wrote Honduran President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya.

“We strongly repudiate this violation of Mexican state sovereignty and international law. We stand in solidarity with the Mexican people and their president, @lopezobrador_,” the message adds.

The invasion of the Mexican embassy in Ecuador

Mexico suspended diplomatic relations with the government of Ecuador this Friday, as ordered by Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The Mexican president made this decision after police raided his country’s embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, a few hours after the Aztec government granted him political asylum.

The police, who arrived in black vehicles, broke down the external doors of the Mexican diplomatic headquarters, in the north of the Ecuadorian capital, and entered the courtyards.

The head of the Farnesina and of the Embassy’s Political Affairs, Roberto Canseco, in statements to the press denounced that the Ecuadorian agents broke in and attacked the guard staff of the diplomatic headquarters.

“This is totally unacceptable, it cannot be, it is barbaric,” said Canseco and assured that the agents beat him when he confronted them to try to prevent them from violating the space of the Mexican embassy in Quito.

The Ecuadorian government defended its actions in a statement confirming Glas’ arrest and his making available to the judicial authorities.

Glas was transferred this Saturday to the maximum security prison of La Roca, in Guayaquil.. Early in the morning he left in an armored vehicle protected by strong security devices towards Quito airport, where he was boarded on a plane bound for Guayaquil.

This was confirmed by a statement from the National Comprehensive Care Service for Persons Deprived of Liberty (Snai), the state penitentiary institution, which will respect the precautionary custody order that weighed on the former vice president.