Current location:entertainment >>
Ecuador's former vice president taken to hospital after arrest
entertainment1921People have gathered around
IntroductionQUITO, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas was rushed to the hospital Mon ...
QUITO, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas was rushed to the hospital Monday with drug poisoning three days after he was arrested at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, according to local media.
Glas, who was convicted of corruption and had sought refuge at the embassy, was taken from a maximum security prison in the southwest city of Guayaquil to a hospital after taking medication that caused poisoning, online news site Primicias said.
Citing a police report, the site said he was in a self-induced deep coma presumably caused by the ingestion of anxiolytic, antidepressant and sedative medications.
The report said an initial medical evaluation was carried out on Glas, who did not respond to the treatment, so he was taken to a military hospital for an evaluation with specialists in neurology, internal medicine and cardiac medicine.
Former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) confirmed the news on social media and lamented the medical condition of the 54-year-old Glas, who was his vice president.
Glas was arrested late Friday during a raid by Ecuadorian police at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, where he had taken refuge.
The raid came just hours after Mexico granted him political asylum on the belief he was being politically "persecuted," a decision Ecuador rejected and described as an "illicit act."
After the assault on the Mexican embassy, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced the suspension of diplomatic ties with Ecuador and ordered an indefinite closure of the diplomatic outpost in the Andean country. ■
Tags:
Reprint:Friends are welcome to share on the Internet, but please indicate the source of the article when reprinting it.“Stellar Scope news portal”。http://estonia.tokosaranateknik.com/article-23f099900.html
Related articles
Sarah Jessica Parker divides opinion with enormous hat on set of And Just Like That
entertainmentSarah Jessica Parker and her character Carrie Bradshaw seem to love pushing fashion boundaries, and ...
Read moreRwandans honor fallen politicians as genocide commemoration week ends
entertainmentKIGALI, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Rwandans on Saturday paid tribute to politicians killed during the 1994 ...
Read moreWorld Robot Conference 2022 held in Beijing
entertainmentPhoto taken on Aug. 18, 2022 shows a surgery robot during an expo of the World Robot Conference 2022 ...
Read more
Popular articles
Latest articles
Nina Dobrev hospitalized with a neck brace due to serious e
Local brands expand overseas production
Hungary ends row with EU over aid
Xi extends Spring Festival greetings to military veterans
Who is Abi Carter? Inside the American Idol winner's unconventional family life
Ndosho Hospital struggles to cope with influx of patients amid armed conflicts
LINKS
- Saweetie and YG Marley look cozy as they put on a loved
- Meet the Real Housewives star who spent £25m on a 1,000
- Stock market today: Asian stocks track Wall Street's decline as Middle East tensions escalate
- New toad species found in south China
- Dialogue in birthplace of Confucius pools wisdom for AI governance
- Chinese researchers call for increase in advanced carbon observation stations
- Feature: Chinese
- Shirley MacLaine has a laugh with friends while enjoying lunch in Malibu
- China launches Zhongxing
- Researchers enrich SW China regional climate history with tree ring data