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Ecuador's ex-vice president Jorge Glas, arrested in a raid on Mexico's embassy in Quito, has been hospitalized after refusing to eat, the prison authority said Monday as a diplomatic spat over his capture spiraled.

The Ecuadorian police raided Mexico's embassy in Quito on Friday to arrest former VP Jorge Glas

Mexico's diplomatic personnel were leaving Ecuador on Sunday, its foreign minister said, as the two countries severed ties after Quito's security forces stormed the Mexican embassy in a raid that prompted searing international rebukes.

Diplomatic crisis in Ecuador as former VP arrested in Mexican embassy triggers regional backlash.

Mexico severs diplomatic ties with Ecuador over embassy raid and arrest of former VP, sparking regional concerns.

In the past century, Mexico has opened its doors to revolutionaries, Spanish exiles, and persecuted Latin American leaders -- a tradition that has been dealt an unprecedented blow by a police invasion of its embassy in Ecuador.

Former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas sought asylum at the Mexican Embassy amid corruption allegations and faced arrest by Ecuadorian authorities.

Following Ecuadorian authorities' storming of Mexico's embassy in Quito and arrest of the country’s former vice president Jorge Glas on corruption charges, Ecuador’s exiled former president, Rafael Correa, told FRANCE 24 on Saturday that his ex-deputy Glas “is an honest man” subject to “political persecution”. He also likened the raid…

Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena reported that several members of the Mexican diplomatic delegation sustained injuries during the raid