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Former Vice President Ecuador Jorge Glas was transferred to a hospital in Guayaquil on Monday, prison agency SNAI said in a statement, because he apparently fell ill after
Former Vice President Ecuador Jorge Glas was transferred to a hospital in Guayaquil on Monday, prison agency SNAI said in a statement, because he apparently fell ill after refusing to eat in prison.
Glas, twice convicted of corruption and now facing new charges, was arrested Friday night when Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito, where he had been holed up since December, and taken to a prison in Guayaquil.
“It has been determined that the person deprived of his liberty, Jorge G., has suffered possible decompensation due to his refusal to consume food provided by this public service during the last 24 hours,” SNAI said in a statement.
“The health condition of the person deprived of his liberty, Jorge G., is stable and he will remain under observation for the next few hours,” he added.
The unusual invasion brought the dispute between the two countries to a boiling point, causing Mexico to suspend diplomatic relations with Mexico. Ecuador and caused criticism from countries in the region and the world.
Ecuador defended the embassy entry, arguing that Mexico could not grant diplomatic asylum to Glas because he was facing charges, and that Ecuador He had information about the upcoming escape plan.
In an open letter to La Roca prison authorities in Guayaquil dated Sunday, Glas’ lawyer Sonia Vera expressed “concern and alarm” at the “complete impossibility of establishing contact with our client for more than 48 hours.” , saying it was a “serious violation” of the former official’s fundamental rights.
During the raid, Glas was knocked to the ground and hit in several parts of his body, Vera explained at a press conference on Monday.
Left Glas, vice president from 2013 to 2017, was first sentenced to six years in prison for accepting bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for government contracts.
He was convicted again in 2020 of using contractors’ money to finance the campaigns of former President Rafael Correa’s political movement and sentenced to eight years in prison.
Glas, who served more than four years in prison before being released in 2022, has long argued that the charges are politically motivated, a claim prosecutors have rejected.
He now faces charges of embezzling funds raised to help rebuild the coastal province of Manabi after the devastating 2016 earthquake.
In a letter posted on social media, “To the brothers of Mexico, I want to say that I will always be ready to resolve any differences, but justice is not agreed upon,” he said.
Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena said Monday that Mexico’s head of diplomatic mission Ecuador he would not be asked to leave in his country, and he stressed that Mexico wanted to reduce tensions.
“We want to call for calm, we are not going to apply the same recipe of abuse that they inflicted on us,” Bárcena said at a morning news conference by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. (Reuters).
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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