Ecuador was lambasted across Latin America on Saturday after security forces stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest graft-accused former vice president Jorge Glas, who had been granted political asylum there.
Special forces agents surrounded the embassy with a battering ram, and at least one scaled the walls, in an almost unheard-of raid on diplomatic premises that are considered inviolable sovereign territory.
The incident Friday night prompted Mexico to quickly sever diplomatic ties with Ecuador.