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Mexico is demanding that the United Nations expel Ecuador from the world body as part of a complaint to the top UN court over a police raid last week on the Mexican embassy in Quito.

Tensions between Mexico and Ecuador have soared since late last week when Ecuadorian authorities forced their way into the diplomatic mission to arrest Ecuador’s former vice-president Jorge Glas who had been holed up there seeking asylum in Mexico.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his country had filed a complaint at the international court of justice in the Netherlands asking the UN to expel Ecuador.

“The court, in accordance with the United Nations charter, should approve the expulsion, and there should be no veto” from the UN security council, López Obrador said.

López Obrador also said Mexico was demanding a public apology from Ecuador for last week’s raid, reparation of damages and a promise not to do it again. The Ecuadorian foreign minister, Gabriela Sommerfeld, said her country would defend its actions and said an apology “is not something that is under discussion at this moment”.

The two countries have been tussling over Glas, a convicted criminal and fugitive, since he took refuge at Mexico’s embassy in December.

Ecuador has argued that Glas has been targeted for crimes not for political reasons and that Mexico should not have been considering asylum for him. On 5 April, Ecuadorian police scaled the embassy walls and broke into the building.
Roberto Canseco, Mexico’s head of consular affairs and the highest-ranking diplomat present since Ecuador expelled the ambassador earlier in the week, tried to keep them from entering, even pushing a large cabinet in front of a door. But police restrained him and pushed him to the floor as they carried Glas out.

Mexico, as well as foreign experts, say it appeared to be a blatant violation of international accords. Mexico broke off diplomatic relations with the country in response. Leaders across Latin America condemned Ecuador’s actions as a violation of the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations.

On Tuesday, Ecuador’s deputy minister of human mobility, Alejandro Dávalos, told representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS) gathered in Washington DC that Glas did not meet the requisites to merit receiving asylum from Mexico and could not be considered politically persecuted.

But the OAS secretary general, Luis Almagro, noted that “the use of force, the illegal incursion into a diplomatic mission, nor the detention of an asylee are the peaceful way toward resolution of this situation”. He said Ecuador’s actions could not be allowed to set a precedent.

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Anomie: in societies or individuals, a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals.

Blowing up other country's embassies is thug behavior and demonstrates how much "liberal democracy" is just a figleaf for the worst kind of oligarchy....

Trend-setting is a powerful tool.

Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus

On 1 April 2024, an Israeli airstrike destroyed the Iranian consulate annex building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, killing 16 people...

If you read the Mossad-redacted wikipedia article, it says that this act of international terrorism killed lots of bad guys in the process. That apparently justifies a terrorist act - killing bad people.

The problem is that even three-year-olds think they know "bad people."

(ie. the guy who wouldn't give you a free popsicle? The man with the scary dog? The other baby who wouldn't share her bottle of milk with you? The man who imitated a ghost and frightened you?)

According to the oligarchs and their media, all these bad guys need to be assasinated and ethnic-cleansed because... they have regimes instead of governments, and they're not Western liberal-democracies. They're different than us, and that's bad.

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^ unless it is an Israeli embassy that gets blown up by Iran or an American embassy that gets taken over by "peaceful" Iranian protesters.

Going back to Mexico and Ecuador, both are wrong. Ecuador did not need to raid the embassy, and Mexico shouldn't have granted asylum to a convicted bribe taker (Glas took bribes from Odebrecht).