April 10, 2024 (EIRNS)—After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador roasted the State Department yesterday, and Joe Biden personally, for issuing an embarrassingly nondescript “bulletin” April 6 on the Ecuadorian police raid of the Mexican Embassy in Quito, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan rushed to make amends, sort of, in a stronger statement. The original statement never even mentioned the Ecuadorian police’s violent assault on the embassy and only condemned “any violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” adding that it “takes very seriously the obligation of host countries under international law to respect the inviolability of diplomatic missions.”
Having seen the security footage of the attack on the embassy and the vicious assault on embassy personnel, Sullivan announced at a White House briefing yesterday, “we condemn this violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, including the use of force against embassy officials. We’ve reviewed the security camera footage from the Mexican embassy and believe these actions were wrong. The Ecuadorian government disregarded its obligations under international law as a host state to respect the inviolability of diplomatic missions and jeopardized the foundations of basic diplomatic norms and relationships.”
