Ecuador Kidnaps Former Vice President from Mexican Embassy

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley

12 Apr 2024

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Black Agenda Radio · Ecuador Kidnaps Former Vice President from Mexican Embassy

Camila Escalante is an editor for Kawsachun News and a Latin America correspondent for PressTV. She joins us from Toronto to discuss Ecuador’s intrusion into Mexico’s embassy in Quito and the arrest of Ecuador’s former Vice President who had been given asylum there. This incident is a violation of the Vienna Convention and international norms. She will give us the background of the events which precipitated this incident and the implications for relations between Latin American nations.

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