Ecuador's former vice president Glas on hunger strike, lawyer says

Ecuador's former vice president Jorge Glas is on a hunger strike at a prison in Guayaquil to protest his arrest, his lawyer Sonia Vera said in a message posted on X on Wednesday.

Glas, already twice convicted of corruption and now facing fresh charges, was arrested on Friday after a raid by police on Mexico's Quito embassy, where he had been living since December. "We have finally made contact with Jorge, who is on hunger strike," Vera wrote on X in a message that also included a video of Glas recounting his arrest last week.

The arrest capped a week of growing tensions between Mexico and Ecuador, after Quito declared the Mexican ambassador persona non grata, citing "unfortunate" comments by leftist Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Glas was taken to hospital on Monday after the prison service said he refused to eat food provided in jail and became ill.

He was discharged on Tuesday and returned to prison.

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