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Bogota Colombia
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro introduced Tuesday that his authorities determined to shut its embassy in Ecuador and consulates in Quito and Guayaquil to indicate assist for Mexico.
“The statements by President (of Ecuador) Daniel Noboa, that he feels pleased with having attacked the Mexican Embassy, saying that he doesn’t acknowledge that embassies are the nation’s territory and that they should be revered, is a direct menace to all of the nations which have an embassy in Ecuador,” Maduro mentioned on the digital summit of the Neighborhood of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) convened to debate the difficulty.
“I’ve ordered to shut our Embassy in Ecuador, shut the Consulate in Quito, instantly shut the Consulate in Guayaquil and for diplomatic personnel to return to Venezuela instantly,” he mentioned.
The announcement is in response to the April 5 raid by Ecuadorian police on the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who requested asylum on the embassy.
The 54-year-old politician had been taking refuge within the embassy since Dec. 17, the place he had been granted asylum.
Glas had been convicted of corruption by Ecuador however was launched from jail on the finish of 2023 after a choose accepted a habeas corpus attraction from his protection legal professionals.
“There isn’t a doubt that President Daniel Noboa’s motion of attacking the Mexican Embassy has been an act of barbarism, at this time condemned by your entire world,” mentioned Maduro.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador requested nations at CELEC to hitch his grievance in opposition to Ecuador earlier than the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice.
Lopez Obrador mentioned his grievance seeks “an expulsion of Ecuador from the United Nations, so long as there is no such thing as a apology and a proposal of non-repetition, to by no means once more attraction to soiled methods” such because the raid on the Mexican diplomatic headquarters.
The choice by Noboa to order the raid has prompted condemnation from throughout the political spectrum in Latin America.
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