Mexican president releases footage of ‘despicable’ raid on embassy in Ecuador

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador condemns assault by Ecuadorian officers, who dragged out ex-vice-president sheltering in mission

The Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has condemned what he described as a despicable authoritarian" assault on his country's embassy in Quito and released dramatic images showing Ecuadorian security forces dragging the country's former vice-president from the building.

Jorge Glas, the Ecuador's vice-president from 2013 until 2018, sought shelter at the Mexican mission in December claiming he was suffering political persecution. But the 54-year-old politician was arrested there on Friday after Ecuador's president, Daniel Noboa, took the extraordinary step of ordering a raid on the embassy.