Event
Ecuadorian police raid the Mexican embassy in Quito in order to arrest former vice-president Jorge Glas, who had been granted political asylum by Mexico
5 Apr 2024 · 0.18° S, 78.48° W
What the records say
- When
- 5 Apr 2024
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 0.18° S, 78.48° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2024 raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito.
Summary
Ecuadorian police raid the Mexican embassy in Quito in order to arrest former vice-president Jorge Glas, who had been granted political asylum by Mexico. This action violates the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and Mexico and Nicaragua break off diplomatic relations with Ecuador.
4 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Эквадорская полиция совершает рейд в мексиканском посольстве в Кито с целью ареста бывшего вице-президента Хорхе Гласа”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Quito, se produce el asalto a la embajada de México en Ecuador para arrestar al exvicepresidente Jorge Glas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “厄瓜多爾警方晚上強行闖入墨西哥駐厄瓜多爾大使館,並逮捕獲墨西哥政治庇護的前副總統豪爾赫·格拉斯,墨西哥隨即宣布與厄瓜多爾中斷外交關係。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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