The head of the Mexican diplomatic mission in Ecuador, Roberto Canseco Martínez, has been denounced by two citizens of the South American country for alleged obstruction of justice during the assault on the Embassy of that country in Quito to capture Jorge Glas. The Ecuadorian Prosecutor's Office indicated that the events would be related to the provisions of the Ecuadorian Penal Code, which establishes that “foreigners who commit an offense in national territory are subject to criminal jurisdiction,” as detailed in article 400 cited by the Public Ministry. .
The Prosecutor's Office recognizes that Canseco enjoys diplomatic immunity, as established in international law, so it has ordered that the procedure be carried out through the Directorate of International Affairs and that Mexico be informed about the complaint. What is known about the action against the Mexican diplomat is that it was carried out by two citizens, it is not known in whose name or for what reason, because Canseco supposedly tried to prevent the Police's work to capture former Vice President Glas, who He had been taking refuge since mid-December at the embassy headquarters to evade a corruption investigation carried out by the Prosecutor's Office.
In the video that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador later shared from the internal cameras of the Embassy, it is observed how the head of the diplomatic mission was mistreated and pointed with weapons by the Ecuadorian police when he tried to prevent violent entry into the legation. The recordings were shown after the breakdown of relations between both countries that forced all diplomatic personnel from Ecuador to leave.
Roberto Canseco was left in charge of the embassy after President Daniel Noboa declared the Mexican ambassador Raquel Serur persona non grata, for interference in the country's internal affairs following López Obrador's statements about the elections in Ecuador that linked the murder of presidential candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, with the triumph of Noboa over the candidate Luisa González, from the Citizen Revolution movement of former president Rafael Correa. After Ecuador's decision, López Obrador's response was to break relations and accept Jorge Glas' request for asylum.
The Noboa Government has argued its decision to break into the Mexican Embassy in Quito was due to the fact that Jorge Glas was a fugitive from justice and on whom two sentences for corruption that the former vice president was serving in a regime of pre-release, granted by a judge who is part of an investigation into the influence of drug trafficking on the judicial system. Glas has been imprisoned in a maximum security prison called La Roca, in Guayaquil, since the day of his arrest on April 5. The diplomatic crisis between both countries has provoked Ecuador's condemnation from 29 countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) and a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice.
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