Authorities discovered a former Ecuadorean vp, Jorge Glas, in a “deep self-induced coma” in jail on Monday, simply days after he was captured by the police in a dramatic arrest contained in the Mexican embassy in Quito.
Mr. Glas ingested anti-depressants and sedatives, in keeping with a police report, and was being transferred to a navy hospital for commentary.
The previous vp faces a cost of embezzlement in Ecuador, and he had sought refuge within the Mexican embassy in an try to keep away from arrest. He turned the topic of a diplomatic scuffle final week when police in Quito entered the embassy and efficiently captured him, transferring him to a detention middle.
A 1961 diplomatic treaty says that governments can’t enter overseas embassies with out permission from the embassy’s host nation, establishing a line that has been crossed solely on uncommon events.
Ecuador’s new president, Daniel Noboa, has been keen to seem robust on crime amid a rising safety disaster within the area, and he has defended the choice to detain Mr. Glas, calling him a legal, not a political prisoner.
Attorneys for Mr. Glas, an ally of former president Rafael Correa, say that he’s being politically persecuted. Mr. Glas served as vp beneath Mr. Correa from 2013 to 2017.
Thalíe Ponce contributed reporting from in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Genevieve Glatsky contributed from Bogotá, Colombia.
