Former Vice President Jorge Glas, arrested during a violent police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito to be transferred to a maximum security prison, He attempted suicide with a drug overdose. and would be transferred to a hospital in the coastal city of Guayaquil.
According to the radio station Radio Pichincha, which cites sources close to the Citizen Revolution movement, to which Glas belongs, the politician was transferred to the military hospital in Guayaquil due to having consumed an overdose of drugs in a suicide attempt.
Digital media Primicias also reported that Glas was declared in a medical coma, according to a police report on the causes of the breakdown due to the “taking anti-anxiety medicationsantidepressants and sedatives”.
Likewise, it was noted that former vice president and ally of former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) would be stabilized in the medical unit to which he was transferred.
At the moment no Ecuadorian authority has confirmed or denied the information, despite multiple requests from the press for an official version of the alleged suicide attempt.
Source: Clarin
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