Raquel Serur was declared persona non grata by Ecuador on April 4. The Ecuadorian government ordered her immediate departure from the country.
Serur tells, in first person, the hours in which the crisis precipitated and how he experienced the arrival of the agents to the diplomatic headquarters. "I am assaulted by images of dull violence that now take on meaning," she says. "Your pain hurts me," she writes to the Ecuadorian president, who is not going to expel the ambassador, nor to break relations with the country, she adds. "It is a sovereign decision of Ecuador and there is nothing left but to accept it,” she says of the government's decision. 'I haven't been able to vent. My feelings are contained and packed into a sore body that doesn't seem to be mine,' she says, "Now that I write it, the first tear comes to my eyes' 'I feel a tension and rigidity that still remains as I write. I try to repress those thoughts, to think the things I close about,' she writes.