The government of Ecuador violated Article 22 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relationshe assured Aristegui News Gerardo Rodríguez Sánchez Lara, professor of international relations at the University of America in Puebla, after the Ecuadorian authorities invaded the Mexican embassy in Quito.

Here’s what Article 22 says:

The mission premises are inviolable. Agents of the host state cannot enter them without the consent of the head of the mission.

On Friday evening, Ecuadorian police arrested former Vice President Jorge Glascapturing him at the Mexican embassy and forcing Mexico to suspend bilateral relations.

Rodriguez Sanchez Lara explained the break in diplomatic relations falls under article 45 the same Convention, which entered into force on April 24, 1964, which clearly explains the diplomatic process that will be followed in these cases.

Here’s what Article 45 says:

If diplomatic relations are severed between two states or a mission is temporarily withdrawn: The receiving state must respect and protect the objectives of the mission, even during armed conflict.

It also states that the issuing State must entrust the storage of the objects to a third State acceptable to the receiving State, and that in this case Mexico must trust the protection of its citizens in the receiving state to a third state if accepted by the receiving state

He added that the next step would be an announcement by Mexican authorities. Which country will you seek protection from? their compatriots and the security of the embassy, ​​the private residences of their diplomats and other diplomatic installations of Mexico in Ecuador.

“Besides, Ecuador will have to accept this request“,” he said in detail.

What happened at the Mexican embassy in Ecuador?

glass, convicted of corruptionhas remained at Mexico’s diplomatic mission in Ecuador since requesting asylum in December, a request that was granted by Mexico earlier on Friday.

Police forcibly entered the Mexican Embassy in Quito before making an arrest, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published in X. Ecuador’s presidential office said in a statement that it had detained Glas, who served as vice president during Rafael Correa’s leftist government in 2013. and 2017.

There was a heavy military presence at the crime scene unit in Quito where the former vice president was taken.

The arrest caps a week of rising tensions between Mexico and Ecuador, which on Thursday declared Mexico’s ambassador to Quito persona non grata, citing “unfortunate” comments by leftist President Lopez Obrador.

The Ecuadorian government claims that Mexico’s asylum offer was illegal.

What is Jorge Glass accused of?

Ecuadorian authorities asked Mexico for permission to enter the facility and arrest Glas, who was sentenced to prison. six years in prison in 2017after he was found guilty of accepting a bribe from a Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for government contracts.

Glas, who has a preventive arrest warrant in another corruption case, complained that he was being persecuted for his political affiliation, that The Ecuadorian government denies this.

Ecuadorian officials were irritated this week Lopez Obrador’s comments on last year’s bloody elections in the South American country where a presidential candidate was assassinated.

The following are statements from President López Obrador: