Following Ecuadorian authorities' storming of Mexico's embassy in Quito and arrest of the country’s former vice president Jorge Glas on corruption charges, Ecuador’s exiled former president, Rafael Correa, told FRANCE 24 on Saturday that his ex-deputy Glas “is an honest man” subject to “political persecution”. He also likened the raid on the embassy, which has been condemned by Mexico and prompted it to cut diplomatic ties with the South American nation, to an invasion and said that under normal circumstances it would have been “a cause for war”.
Glas, who had sought political asylum in Mexico, had been residing in the embassy since December after being indicted on corruption charges.
