Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has accused Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa of violating International Law and maintaining a subservient attitude toward the United States administration.
Through his Twitter account, the head of Cuban diplomacy asserted that “the president of Ecuador is known for his tendency to disregard and violate International Law, in particular, the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”
“The attack on the Mexican Embassy in Quito and the beating of a diplomatic official from that mission are irrefutable evidence,” he stated, adding that the head of state “cynically lies, using fabricated pretexts about the actions of Cuban diplomatic personnel in that nation, and boasts of having expelled them.”
“He does so with blatant servility to please the US government,” the Cuban foreign minister emphasized.
The reference to the attack on the Mexican Embassy in Quito referred to the illegal raid on the diplomatic headquarters on April 5, 2024. Ecuadorian police violently raided the Mexican embassy in Quito, taking into custody former Vice President Jorge Glas.
The raid was condemned by Mexico, which announced the severing of diplomatic relations with Ecuador, calling it a violation of International Law and sovereignty. The incident followed Glas’s request for asylum, which had been granted only hours before by Mexico. The violent raid was condemned as a flagrant violation of diplomatic relations.
In the most recent incident, Noboa claimed that Cuban diplomats had committed acts of interference in political activities and, for that reason, had been expelled from the Andean nation.
In response, the Cuban Foreign Ministry called the decision arbitrary, unjustified, and unfriendly, and closed the Cuban embassy in Quito.
