He President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Tuesday, April 16, 2024, the closure of the Embassy and consulates of Venezuela in Ecuador. This decision, he said, is due to the raid by the Ecuadorian Police on the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in Quito.
«I have ordered to close our embassy in Ecuador, close the consulate in Quito, close the consulate in Guayaquil, and that return diplomatic personnel to Venezuela immediately (…) until international law is restored expressly in Ecuador,” he said
The statements were made by the Venezuelan Head of State during the meeting virtual Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), in which he also stated that Mexico is not alone. “She has the voice of our America accompanying her,” she said.
Also read:
«There is no doubt that the action of President Daniel Noboa, decided by him, of assault the territory of Mexico (your Embassy); of beating and beating his diplomatic staff in front of the world, live and direct on social networks; of capture, tie up, torture former vice president Jorge Glas It has been an act of barbarismtoday unanimously condemned by the entire world,” said Maduro.
Likewise, he pointed out that the comparison that has been made with the former president of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, “Madame Chancellor, Gabriela Sommerfeld, it’s up to you personally. Have you thought that her name will be etched and stained for the rest of her life by this barbaric act?
«Former Vice President Jorge Glas must be restored to the Mexican Embassy, recognize his political asylum, give him approval and travel to recover his physical health from torture, in Mexico«added the Venezuelan President.
The leaders of the Celac they find each other together this Tuesday, virtually, to discuss this incident, for which Mexico presented a complaint before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)in which he asks to suspend Ecuador from the UN until it offers a public apology for raiding its diplomatic headquarters.
