Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated at a press conference on Wednesday that her government will not resume diplomatic relations with Ecuador while Daniel Noboa is president.
“We have no relationship with Ecuador, nor will we continue to have while Noboa is president, because he was responsible for. This violates our sovereignty,” said Sheinbaum.
The Mexican president insisted that Noboa is “responsible for the invasion of the embassy”, referring to the case of April 5, 2024, when the Ecuadorian police captured former Ecuadorian president Jorge Glas, who sought asylum in the Mexican embassy in Quito.
After the case, then -Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena announced that the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador was immediately breaking diplomatic relations with Ecuador due to the “blatant violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations and the injuries suffered by the Mexican diplomatic team in Ecuador”.
Ecuador accused Jorge Glas of corruption -related crimes, crimes of which Glas declared himself innocent.
The case has triggered a diplomatic dispute between the two countries, and now that Mexico is under the administration of Sheinbaum and by 2029, the tension must continue.
“Therefore, the relationships will not be resumed and, moreover, his victory was highly doubtful,” Sheinbaum said at Wednesday’s press conference, adding: “The other candidate is saying that there was fraud.”
Noboa, after his electoral victory, said cooperation between the two countries “cannot be conditional on the granting of safe passage to former Ecuadorian vice-president Jorge Glas.”
