Mexico asks Church’s help to mediate diplomatic crisis with Ecuador

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Mexico’s government announced this week that it asked the Church’s help to mediate a diplomatic crisis with Ecuador, made worse after the Ecuadorian police invaded Mexico’s embassy in Quito in order to detain former Vice President Jorge Glas on Apr. 5.

Mexican Foreign Relations Minister Alicia Bárcena said on Apr. 22 that her country’s government sought help from Switzerland and from the Apostolic Nunciature in Ecuador to negotiate Glas’s release and transference to Mexico.