OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, called for “dialogue” between Mexico and Ecuador and announced that he will request an urgent meeting of the Permanent Council.
HAVANA TIMES – The police raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, where Ecuadorian security agents forcibly entered on Friday night, April 5, to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, whom the Mexican government had granted political asylum, has provoked a unanimous reaction of condemnation from Latin American governments, both left and right.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador expressed his gratitude for the international support received after the incident at his country’s Embassy in Ecuador, where the diplomatic assault took place. Lopez Obrador called on Mexican citizens not to fall into provocations and to avoid harassment.
The message from the Mexican president comes after expressions of solidarity and support from presidents such as Luis Alberto Arce of Bolivia; Gustavo Petro of Colombia; Gabriel Boric of Chile; as well as former Argentine President Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) and the Chilean Foreign Minister, Alberto van Klaveren, among others.
The regime of Daniel Ortega announced on Saturday that Nicaragua is also severing diplomatic relations with Ecuador, just as Mexico had announced the night before through its Foreign Minister, Alicia Barcena.
Urgent OAS Meeting
International organizations have also reacted strongly. The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, urged “dialogue” between Mexico and Ecuador and announced that he will request a meeting of the Permanent Council of the organization to address the tensions between the two countries.
In a statement, the OAS General Secretariat, headed by Almagro, called “for dialogue between the parties to resolve their differences” and deemed “necessary” a meeting of the organization’s Permanent Council, based in Washington.
Meanwhile, Ecuadorian Cristina Reyes, President of the Andean Parliament, acknowledged after the raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, that her country has entered into a “serious international conflict.”
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) said that the “unprecedented raid on the Embassy,” as well as the “kidnapping of the former vice president” and “mistreatment of all Mexican diplomatic personnel constitute serious violations of international law.”
Among the left-governed countries, Colombia formally requested on Saturday that Honduras, which holds the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), convene an extraordinary meeting of this organization to address Ecuador’s possible breach of the Vienna Convention by forcibly entering the Mexican Embassy in Quito.
“In light of the situation at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, Colombia formally requeste
