On April 5, 2024, agents entered the diplomatic mission without authorization and arrested Glas, who had been granted asylum by then-Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Glas remains imprisoned while his defense team insists that his health is progressively deteriorating and that he requires specialized medical attention.

This Sunday, on his Twitter account, former President Rafael Correa, who described the incident as a legal outrage, wrote, “Jorge is the political prisoner in Latin America in the worst condition. They are killing him while he is still alive.”

The second anniversary of the events coincides with the recent denial of a habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of the former vice president, whose defense team warned of a deterioration in his health while in prison.

Lawyer Sonia Vera, part of the former official’s legal team, warned about the impact of these conditions on his health, stating that the Ecuadorian state is repeatedly and systematically exposing him to a real risk of death.

For his part, Sacha Llorenti, of the International Committee for the Freedom of Glas and former Bolivian representative to the UN, also questioned the case, saying that “Latin America should be ashamed,” given that after his “kidnapping,” the politician “is being subjected to torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.”

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