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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) released a statement on Thursday stating that an official date for a court hearing regarding Ecuador's storming of a Mexican embassy has been scheduled. A Date Established: This follows Mexico's original filing last Thursday, where the Mexican government alleged that Ecuador violated international law by storming the nation's embassy in order to arrest former Ecuadorian...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Thursday that the country has filed a formal complaint against Ecuador with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), with the President demanding that Ecuador be expelled from the United Nations. A Budding Court Case: Mexico claimed in its official filing with the ICJ that the raid follows “a series of continued acts of intimidation...

A police officer in Zacatelco, located in Mexico's Tlaxcala State, was killed while attempting to break up a lynching of two men who have been accused of killing a taxi driver on Monday. An Attempt to Restore Order: Officers responded to a mob of individuals who had attacked the two accused men who reportedly attempted to rob the elderly taxi driver,...

Mexico's Foreign Ministry released footage of the arrest of Jorge Glas, a former Ecuadorian Vice President, on Tuesday. An Opposed Raid: Footage, which was posted on X, shows authorities breaching the embassy and carrying out a search of the premise. While the operation was in progress, Mexican diplomat Roberto Conseco could be seen building a barricade at one of the points...

Escalating Tensions Mexico's President, Andres Manuel Obrador, has ordered relations with Ecuador to be suspended after Ecuadorian police raided Mexico's embassy in Quito, the Ecuadorian capital. Ecuador's police raided the embassy in order to arrest former Ecuador Vice President Jorge Glas. During the raid, a brief altercation with the head of Mexico's consular section, Roberto Canseco, occurred as he attempted to...