Jorge Glas asks López Obrador, Lula and Petro for help from prison: “There is a brutal persecution”

Jorge Glas has requested by letter to the presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil to mediate to obtain his release. In three personalized letters addressed to each of them, the former Ecuadorian vice president has told them that he is on a hunger strike and locked up in a maximum security prison since he was captured on April 10, when the Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboa, ordered to the police and the military to attack the Mexican embassy in Quito and forcibly take away Glas, who days before had received asylum from the Mexican Government.

The violation of Mexican sovereignty has caused a great international commotion. Mexico has broken relations with Ecuador, a veto that other countries such as Venezuela have joined. Almost all nations have condemned the violent invasion of the embassy to take away President Rafael Correa's right-hand man, who, like Glas, has political asylum status and lives in Belgium. Both have been convicted of corruption in Ecuadorian courts, but some countries consider that this is a political persecution carried out by the different governments that succeeded Correa's.

Glas is imprisoned in La Roca, a maximum security prison in Guayaquil, where the leaders of the main gangs are locked up, against which Noboa has waged a war to reduce violence and insecurity in the country. The Ecuadorian Government argues that the Mexican breached international laws by granting diplomatic immunity to Glas, who has two convictions and a third that was about to be carried out at the end of last year, which led him to spend Christmas at the embassy. Mexican waiting for asylum. When he received it, at the beginning of April, he only needed a safe passage from the Ecuadorian Government that would allow him to get to the airport and fly to Mexico City. Instead, Noboa asked his security forces to surround the embassy and, when the time came, access the interior without respecting that the embassies are territories of national sovereignty.

Glas has written these short letters to the presidents who have shown their solidarity the most, Lula Da Silva and Gustavo Petro, of Brazil and Colombia, respectively. Also one directed at López Obrador. In lyrics that seem to demonstrate deep anguish, the politician sends a message for help. He writes to the Mexican president: “I apologize as an Ecuadorian. I am in the worst prison in Ecuador and on a hunger strike. Help me. Here there is a brutal persecution against all progressives. Only international help can do something.” He writes to Petro in the same terms, in a letter dated April 15: “Help me. They tortured me out of the embassy. There is a persecution against progressives and RC [it is understood that Rafael Correa]. Only international help can do something. “I am in the worst prison and on a hunger strike.” The text to Lula is practically identical.

Mexico is going to take Ecuador to the International Court of Justice, where it hopes to be tried and has requested that it be suspended as a member of the United Nations (UN). The lawsuit also includes the request to expel him from the organization if it is proven before the Court that the principles established by the founding charter of the United Nations were violated. A good number of countries are joining this request. Noboa wanted, days ago, to reach out to the president of Mexico: "I invite López Obrador to eat ceviche or tacos and talk."