MEXICO was set to take Ecuador to the top United Nations court today, accusing it of violating international law when police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest a former vice-president who had just been given asylum by Mexico.
The April 5 raid, which took place hours after Mexico’s grant of asylum to former vice-president Jorge Glas, brought to a peak tensions that had been brewing between the two countries since Mr Glas took refuge at the embassy in December.
Leaders across Latin America condemned the raid as a blatant violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
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