Jorge Glas, Ecuador's ex-vice president, has been hospitalised after refusing to eat following his arrest in a raid on Mexico's embassy in Quito. He sought refuge in the embassy pending a corruption investigation against him. A lawyer for Glas expressed concern for his life and called for international help.
Ecuador ’s ex-vice president , Jorge Glas, arrested in a raid on Mexico’s embassy in Quito, has been hospitalised after refusing to eat, the prison authority said Monday as a diplomatic spat over his capture spiralled.Glas, 54, was in stable condition at a naval hospital in Guayaquil, the SNAI authority said in a statement, and will be kept under observation.
Local media, citing a police report, said Glas went into a “self-induced coma” after taking antidepressants.Ecuadoran special forces equipped with a battering ram had surrounded the Mexican embassy late Friday, and at least one agent scaled the walls, in an almost unheard-of raid on diplomatic premises, which are considered inviolable sovereign territory.
Leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States will discuss a proposal for “firm condemnation” and possible sanctions against Ecuador at a virtual summit on Friday, Honduran President Xiomara Castro, who chairs the bloc, said in a statement Monday.Mexico’s president said Monday the raid was a “truly authoritarian” action by his Ecuadoran counterpart Daniel Noboa, 36, who took office in November.
Noboa said he was willing to “resolve any difference” with Mexico, but defended his government’s actions by saying Glas posed a flight risk.
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