Ecuador ex-VP Jorge Glas hospitalised after capture from Mexico embassy
Al Jazeera
Ecuador has said it wishes to resolve differences with Mexico, but has defended its raid on embassy.
Jorge Glas, the former vice president of Ecuador whose forceful extraction from Mexico’s embassy in Quito triggered a diplomatic row, has been hospitalised after not eating food in prison for 24 hours.
Glas, who was taken by armed Ecuadorian special forces on Friday night, was transferred to the Guayaquil naval hospital after falling ill but is in a stable condition, said the SNAI prison authorities in a statement early on Tuesday.
It added that the former official, who had been granted political asylum by Mexico and had been living in the embassy since December after being twice convicted of corruption by Ecuadorian courts, will remain under medical observation before shortly being returned to prison.
Mexico suspended diplomatic relations with Ecuador after the rare embassy raid, which it said constituted an “authoritarian act” and a “flagrant violation of international law and sovereignty of Mexico”.
The North American country also withdrew its personnel from the embassy, with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador saying he would file a complaint against Ecuador at the International Court of Justice.
