The invasion of Mexican territory had as its objective the kidnapping of Glas, who had been judicially and politically persecuted for seven years and who had been granted asylum in that diplomatic headquarters, states a letter released this Saturday with 161 signatures.
The letter has the support of former presidents Alberto Fernández, of Argentina; Ernesto Samper, from Colombia; Evo Morales, from Bolivia; Rafael Correa, from Ecuador; José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, from Spain.
They were joined by the Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, the Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez, the executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP), Jorge Arreaza, among other personalities from Ecuador, the United States , Spain, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Paraguay and Cuba.
“We demand the immediate return to the situation prior to the assault against the Mexican embassy, restoring the political asylum status of Jorge Glas,” they claim in the text, where they ask that the former Ecuadorian official be granted the corresponding safe conduct to travel. “safe and sound” to Mexican territory.
The signatories expressed concern for the health and physical integrity of the former vice president and held the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, “the author of his kidnapping,” responsible for his safety.
On April 5, members of the National Police broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito and forcibly took Glas, an intervention condemned by the international community and which caused the rupture of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Not even the military dictatorships dared to perpetrate an aggression of this type, which, in this case, was instructed by the highest authority of the State, the letter stated, in which they added that Glas was a victim of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. .
Given what happened, Mexico accused Ecuador before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which last week heard considerations from both parties.
In its defense statement before the ICJ, the Ecuadorian government tried to justify its violent entry into the embassy with the argument that it was an exceptional case and that the political asylum granted to Glas is illicit because he has convictions for common crimes.
However, Mexico considers him politically persecuted and assures that Noboa’s government violated Article 22 of the Vienna Convention on the inviolability of diplomatic headquarters.
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