Colombia-Ecuador Relations Strain Further After Noboa Rebuke of Petro
Noboa described Petro’s comments as an “attack on sovereignty,” responding to a post by Petro on the social media platform X in which he called Glas a “political prisoner.”
“Now that they are trying to reinvent the ‘political prisoner,’ I want to be emphatic: this constitutes an attack on our sovereignty and a violation of the principle of non-intervention,” Noboa said, citing Article 19 of the Organization of American States Charter. “This country has waited years to see the corrupt held accountable. Today, from abroad, they want to peddle a myth to cover up the obvious: there is a corrupt individual in prison who must answer to Ecuador.”
The dispute follows Colombia’s decision to grant Glas citizenship last September, after which Petro repeatedly urged Ecuador to release him as a gesture “toward peace among Latin American nations.” Petro revealed that he personally requested Noboa to free Glas during a December 2024 meeting in the Galapagos.
“There is no doubt that Jorge Glas is a political prisoner,” Petro said. “There should be no political prisoners in the Americas.”
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