Mexico has filed a complaint before the Court of The Hague against Ecuador. Ecuadorian authorities forcibly raided the Mexican embassy to take Jorge Glas away.
Mexico is betting that the court in The Hague will act quickly and expel Quito from the UN. The OAS approved a resolution this Wednesday to condemn the violent assault by the Ecuadorian police on the Mexican Embassy in Quito. The lawsuit at the International Court of Justice is not the only diplomatic and legal front open for Ecuador, which faces almost unanimous international condemnation and a cascade of sanctions. The truth is that there are few precedents in the region like this case, and it is difficult to predict what sanctions Ecuador could face, says political scientist Valeria Argüello. The assault on Mexican embassies is a breaking of diplomatic relations, which is not even in the harsh Latin American military dictatorships of the seventies and siesies, says Argüellos. It could take us first to the IACHR, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and that could represent a pecuniary sentence for Ecuador.