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Ecuador sparks diplomatic crisis after police storm Mexican embassy

Daniel Noboa orders police to seize a former vice-president who was sheltering in the mission

Mexico has broken off diplomatic relations with Ecuador and vowed to bring the Andean nation before an international court after police broke into its embassy in Quito and captured Ecuador’s former vice-president, who was sheltering there after being convicted of corruption.

President Daniel Noboa’s hardline conservative government ordered officers into the embassy premises after Mexico’s leftwing administration granted asylum to Jorge Glas, who served as Ecuador’s vice-president from 2013-18 and was later sentenced to 14 years in jail.

Police forced their way into the embassy late on Friday night as