Ecuador recalled its ambassador to Colombia for consultations after Colombian President Gustavo Petro reignited a diplomatic row between the 2 neighbors. Petro posted on social media that former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who’s serving a jail sentence for a number of corruption prices, is a political prisoner, and known as on President Daniel Noboa to launch or extradite him, citing Glas’ Colombian citizenship. Noboa fired again that the characterization was an assault on Ecuadorian sovereignty.
The incident is the most recent escalation in a broader feud that has already spilled into commerce coverage. As James Bosworth wrote in WPR in January, Noboa escalated the spat when he imposed 30 % tariffs on Colombian items in retaliation for what he stated was an absence of cooperation from Petro’s administration in preventing drug trafficking. Petro retaliated with reciprocal tariffs and a cutoff of electrical energy exports. “Each nations are actually weaponizing their financial interdependence in methods that can injury each of their economies,” Bosworth wrote.
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