Ortega says that assault on the Mexican embassy ‘is inadmissible’

The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, said yesterday Tuesday before Celac that the assault on the Mexican embassy in Ecuador “has no precedent” and that it is “inadmissible” for a government in the region to act in this way “staining the national sovereignty of another Latin American country”.

Ortega sent this message – read virtually by the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister, Denis Moncada Colindres – at the summit convened by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to analyze the situation generated by the police assault on the headquarters of the Mexican embassy in Quito, to capture former vice president Jorge Glas, convicted of corruption.

“Nicaragua reaffirms its condemnation, denunciation, rejection and repudiation of the crime committed by the Government of Ecuador, a neo-fascist, neo-colonialist act of imperial dictation, against the sovereignty and national dignity of the brother people and Government of Mexico,” said the president.

Ortega recalled that his Government, “upon learning of these reprehensible acts that have no precedent, nor can they set a precedent,” issued an official statement in which it repudiated “that crime and informed the severing of all diplomatic relations with the Government of Ecuador.”

“Also our State, in the midst of a sovereign act, has said that our decision is against that irresponsible Government and not against the noble Ecuadorian people to whom we reiterate our affection, support and solidarity,” he said.