Government Nicaragua also severed diplomatic relations with Ecuador. behind invasion V Mexican Embassy in Quito, where Ecuadorian police forcibly entered to arrest the former vice president Jorge Glasswho was granted political asylum by the Mexican government.

“In the face of the unusual and reprehensible actions carried out this morning in Quito by forces that are supposed to protect the order and security of Ecuadorian citizens and their lives, our strong, decisive and irrevocable rejection, which we translate into our sovereign decision to break all diplomatic relations with the Government of Ecuador “, the executive branch chaired by Daniel Ortega said in a statement.

The Nicaraguan government explained that on September 1, 2020, they withdrew their embassy in Quito “and with this statement” They formalize the “severance of all diplomatic relations” with Ecuador.

He also expressed his solidarity And accompanimentin any legal action that may arise in connection therewith, “to the President and Government of Mexico, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador.”

“neo-fascist political barbarism of the Ecuadorian government”

Managua also spoke out “with absolute rejection and condemnation of the neo-fascist political barbarism of the government of Ecuador, whose wonderful people, as always, deserve all our love, support and solidarity.”

“We condemn and reject this flagrant violation of international law. what we see is repeated from corrupt and servile rulers to empires that unfortunately occupy institutional positions in this brotherly country,” he added.

In this sense, Nicaragua recalled that it was “surprised to learn of the complicity of another recent Ecuadorian government in the attack on its own headquarters in London with the aim of forcibly and illegally removing Julian Assange, a journalist whom the world demands and whose work has allowed us to know and disseminate more “imperialist atrocities in sovereign countries invaded, occupied and destroyed by savage barbarians.”

Nicaragua, which expropriated the OAS offices in Managua two years ago, ratified its “commitment to international law and the conventions that regulate civilized relations between the states and governments of the world.”

Ecuadorian police stormed the headquarters of the Mexican embassy in Quito on Friday and arrested Jorge Glas, vice president of Ecuador between 2013 and 2017 along with Rafael Correa (2007-2017) and then at the start of the government of Lenin Moreno (2017). ). .-2021), on the same day that the Aztec government granted him political asylum.

Glas, 54, considered Correa’s right-hand man, entered the embassy last December and sought asylum soon after.

The politician is being prosecuted for alleged embezzlement of funds in the so-called “reconstruction case” of Manabi province, hardest hit by the massive 2016 earthquake, and a judge has ordered his arrest and placement in preventive detention after he remained in the Mexican embassy.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced a formal severance of diplomatic relations with Ecuador, considering the invasion of the embassy in Quito a violation of national sovereignty and international law. (EFE)