Venezuela closes its embassy in Ecuador [Video]

• Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered the closure of the socialist regime’s embassy in Ecuador on Tuesday.
• The move is intended as a show of solidarity with the Mexican government, whose embassy in Quito was raided by Ecuadorian authorities.
• Maduro also said that Venezuela “fully supports” action to expel Ecuador from the United Nations.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador on Tuesday in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito.

Venezuela also “fully supports” Mexico’s request to have the United Nations suspend Ecuador from the world body, Maduro said during a virtual meeting of the leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa ordered authorities to raid the Mexican diplomatic outpost April 5 to arrest the country’s former Vice President Jorge Glas, a convicted criminal and fugitive who was …