The Government of Mexico, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, again requested from the Government of Ecuador to grant a safe -conduct to the former vice president of that country, Jorge Glas, a Mexican diplomatic asylum, in response to his “delicate state of health.”
The application of the SRE occurs after a court of the National Court of Justice of Ecuador unanimously decided on Monday to 13 years in jail to Glas for peculation (embezzlement of public funds) during the reconstruction process of the areas affected by the 2016 earthquake, the case that led him to request asylum to the embassy of Mexico in Quito and to be arrested in a shot to the diplomatic headquarters.
In a statement issued on Monday, the SRE said that the petition of the salvoconduct in favor of former Ecuadorian vice president is in the terms of articles IX, XII and XIII of the Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum of 1954, binding treaty for Mexico and Ecuador.
“Mexico has also requested that Ecuador take the necessary humanitarian measures for Mr. Glas Espinel to be guarded in a safe place and the precautionary measures ordered by the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights are observed in resolution No. 13/2025 February 2025,” said the text.
“The above, as long as the safe -conduct is issued and moved to Mr. Glas Espinel to Mexico or to the third country that is designated, in accordance with article XIX of the aforementioned convention,” added the SRE.
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Mexico granted diplomatic asylum to Glas Espinel on April 4, 2024
The Foreign Ministry recalled that Mexico granted diplomatic asylum to Glas Espinel on April 4, 2024, based on the pro -person principle, enshrined in the Mexican Constitution, and in its historic humanistic tradition of protection to persecuted persons for political reasons.
Likewise, “the origin of protecting Mr. Glas Espinel was the result of the thorough analysis of the information received by all parties involved, and was based on the foundations of diplomatic asylum and compliance with his requirements in the case in question, in accordance with articles I, IV and IX of the Caracas Convention.”
Glas, one of the strong men of the Government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), already fulfills in jail an eight years as a result of two sentences for corruption imposed in 2017, by illegal association in the Odebrecht case, and in 2020 per bribery in the case bribes, in the belt it was also sentenced to eight years and politically disabled.
At the end of 2022 he was released thanks to a controversial and irregular judicial resolution and was released for just over a year, until at the end of 2023 he arrived at the Mexico Embassy in Quito, where he asked asylum, warning that the Prosecutor’s Office sought to process it for this same case.
Months later, on April 5, 2024, the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, ordered to assault the diplomatic headquarters to stop Glas, once Mexico had granted an asylum when considering it a “pursued politician” and since that day it is held in the rock, the maximum security prison in the country.
The entrance to the embassy resulted in the rupture of relations between the two countries and a litigation in the International Court of Justice, where Mexico accuses Ecuador of having broken the inviolability of the diplomatic headquarters and Ecuador blames the North American country for having contravened the treaties that regulate the diplomatic asylum.
With EFE information.
