MEXICO CITY, April 6. /TASS/. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador instructed Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alicia Barcena to sever diplomatic relations with Ecuador.

"I have instructed our Secretary of Foreign Affairs <…> to immediately declare the suspension of diplomatic relations between the Mexican government and Ecuador," he wrote on his page on the social network X.

On Friday evening local time, Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito and arrested former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who was hiding there and was granted political asylum by the Mexican authorities.

Earlier, Mexican authorities said they had granted Glas political asylum and had asked the Ecuadorian side for permission to take him out of Quito.

The former Vice President of Ecuador is accused of corruption. Glas was already serving a prison sentence from 2017 to 2022. Last December, the Mexican Foreign Ministry reported that the politician had requested asylum at the country's embassy in Quito. Previously, the diplomatic mission had refused to allow the police to arrest Glas.