Honduran President Xiomara Castro, who temporarily holds the presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), called an “emergency meeting” of the bloc’s troika on Monday following the attack on the Mexican embassy in Quito.
“I urgently convene the CELAC troika for this Monday, April 8th, and the foreign ministers for Tuesday, April 9th,” the left-wing president said on her X network account.
Mexican cartels have overrun Ecuador and Glas is a criminal who has been robbing the people of Ecuador. He was the most social scum in Quito, Ecuador… Bravo Noboa!#Ecuador pic.twitter.com/YbTKvnqrTM
— Isaac’s Army (@ReturnOfKappy) April 6, 2024
In addition to her, the CELAC troika consists of the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves.
The shocking operation in Quito, which has no comparable precedent in the world, prompted Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to immediately sever diplomatic relations with Ecuador in what he called a “flagrant violation of international law and Mexico’s sovereignty.”
Nicaragua also broke off diplomatic relations with Quito this Saturday.
Castro claimed that there was a “blatant violation by the government of Ecuador of the American Convention on Asylum and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by forcibly taking over the Mexican Embassy in Quito.”
Both the Troika leaders’ and foreign ministers’ meetings would take place at 5:00 p.m. GMT on Monday, Castro said.
CELAC consists of 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries.
With information from AFP.
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