Honduras has decided to recall its top diplomat from Ecuador, the Central American country’s foreign minister said, as backlash continues over a police raid earlier this month on Mexico’s embassy in Quito to arrest the country’s former vice president on corruption charges .

Foreign Minister Enrique Reyna said embassy business affairs officer Clarivel Vayesillo would return to Tegucigalpa for consultations, adding that Honduras supported Mexico’s recent appeal against Ecuador at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the world’s top judicial body. United States.

The April 5 raid on the Mexican embassy to arrest Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glass, who had fled there in December, prompted the severance of diplomatic relations between the two countries and international outcry over the violation of the Vienna Convention (1961) on diplomatic relations.

Mr. Glass, 54, who has already been sentenced to prison terms twice for corruption and is facing a third trial — he calls the prosecution political, which prosecutors deny — was taken to a maximum-security prison. in Guayaquil (southwest).

The government of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa described as “illegal” Mexico’s recent decision to grant political asylum to Mr. Glass because he had an outstanding warrant and was considered a fugitive.

Late last week, Ecuador’s highest court, while recognizing that his arrest in a police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito was “illegal” and “arbitrary,” rejected Jorge Glass’ request to be released from prison, ruling that he will remain on remand, citing his previous convictions. The politician’s lawyer announced that she will file an appeal.