April 5, 2024

Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito on April 5 to arrest
former vice president Jorge Glas after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
Obrador granted him political asylum earlier in the day.

Glas, a fugitive serving time for multiple corruption and fraud convictions,
had sought refuge in the Mexican embassy in December while briefly out of
prison on parole, sparking diplomatic tensions between AMLO and Ecuador’s new
president, Daniel Noboa. After the raid on Friday night, Mexico’s government severed diplomatic relations.

Source: “Ecuador and Mexico Were Feuding over Election and Asylum before Embassy Break-In,” AP News, April 7, 2024.

Photograph: Ecuadorian police at the Mexican Embassy in Quito. Photograph by AP/David Bustillos.