• Time

    Ecuador President Orders National Shutdown Amid Electricity Crisis

    Ecuador President Daniel Noboa has blamed the unprecedented measure on drought, but also sabotage, without offering evidence.

  • Mexican president releases footage of ‘despicable’ raid on embassy in Ecuador

    Andrés Manuel López Obrador condemns assault by Ecuadorian officers, who dragged out ex-vice-president sheltering in missionThe Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has condemned what he described as a “despicable authoritarian” assault on his country’s embassy in Quito and released dramatic images showing Ecuadorian security forces dragging the country’s former vice-president from the building.Jorge Glas, Ecuador’s vice-president from 2013 until 2018, sought shelter at the Mexican...

  • The former vice president of Ecuador has been hospitalized days after his controversial arrest

    France Press agencySoldiers patrol the military hospital in Guayaquil Noos News•Today, 03:21 Former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas has been transferred from prison to hospital, days after his controversial arrest. Police arrested him on Friday at the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador, where he had been staying since December. The raid sparked angry reactions at the […]

  • Ecuador’s arrested former vice-president taken to hospital

    Jorge Glas brought to naval hospital from maximum security prison three days after his controversial capture in Mexican embassyEcuador’s former vice-president Jorge Glas has reportedly been taken to hospital from the maximum security jail where he was being held – three days after the politician was captured inside Mexico’s embassy in Quito during a police raid that drew outrage across Latin America.Glas, 54, was sent to the Alcatraz-inspired prison La Roca (the Rock) in Guayaquil on Saturday,...

    • DW

    Ecuador arrests former vice president in Mexico embassy raid

    Security forces stormed the Mexican embassy arresting former Ecuadoran vice president Jorge Glas who was taking refuge there. Mexican President Lopez Obrador called the raid "a flagrant violation of international law."

    • MSNBC

    'Toxic': Marjorie Taylor Greene not backing down from trying to oust Speaker Johnson

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is not backing down from trying to out House Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson is also set to speak tomorrow at Mar-a-Lago with former President Trump. NBC News' Ryan Nobles and former chief strategist on the Romney campaign Stuart Stevens weigh in on the potential political and global impact.

  • Mexico's president says country will break diplomatic ties with Ecuador

    QUITO, ECUADOR - The Mexican president has quickly moved to break off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former vice president who had sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption charges.In an extraordinarily unusual move, Ecuadorian police forced their way into the embassy in the capital, Quito, to arrest Jorge Glas, who had been residing there since December. Police broke through the external doors of the Mexican diplomatic...

  • Former vice president Glas held in maximum-security prison in Ecuador

    Quito, Apr 6 (Prensa Latina) Former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who was detained after a raid on the Mexican Embassy in this capital, was transferred to a maximum security prison in the city of Guayaquil on Saturday, official sources said. The post Former vice president Glas held in maximum-security prison in Ecuador first appeared on Prensa Latina.

    • NPR

    Mexico's president says country will break diplomatic ties with Ecuador

    The announcement came after Ecuadorian police officers forcibly broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito, detaining former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who was seeking political asylum there.

  • Peru’s embattled president dismisses ‘Rolexgate’ investigation as a ‘smoke-screen’

    Dina Boluarte has denied wrongdoing after being accused of illicit enrichment in relation to her use of at least three Rolex watches and designer jewelleryPeru’s president, Dina Boluarte, has dismissed an investigation into her use of luxury watches as a “smoke-screen”, denying wrongdoing and saying that the items had been loaned to her, though she admitted to journalists that it was a “mistake” to have accepted them.Earlier on Friday she faced closed-door questioning by prosecutors which lasted...

    • KIFI

    Ecuador’s former vice president hospitalized days after arrest in Mexican embassy

    By Marlon Sorto and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas has been hospitalized, days after his arrest during a high-profile raid of the Mexican embassy in Quito. Glas was taken a hospital in Guayaquil after falling ill, the country’s national prison agency SNAI said Monday. He became ill after he

    • KEYT

    Ecuador’s former vice president hospitalized days after arrest in Mexican embassy

    By Marlon Sorto and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas has been hospitalized, days after his arrest during a high-profile raid of the Mexican embassy in Quito. Glas was taken a hospital in Guayaquil after falling ill, the country’s national prison agency SNAI said Monday. He became ill after he