Mexico has secured overwhelming support in the Organization of American States (OAS) to condemn Ecuador’s forcible entry into the Mexican embassy in Quito on 5 April to seize Jorge Glas, the former Ecuadorean vice president (2013-2017), who faces corruption charges but had been granted political asylum. The incursion by security forces, riding roughshod over the principle of inviolability of diplomatic missions, was a highly risky move by Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa, which will have domestic as well as international ramifications.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1147 words.
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