Mexico and Nicaragua break with Ecuador after police raid Mexican embassy. Mexico on Friday granted asylum to Jorge Glas, who has taken refuge in its embassy in Quito since December 17 and is the subject of an arrest warrant for alleged corruption.
Glas was sentenced in December 2017 to six years in prison for corruption in a vast scandal involving the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. The police operation within the Mexican diplomatic representation was strongly criticized by left-wing governments in Latin America, from Brazil to Venezuela, including Chile.