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Gustavo Petro Grants Colombian Nationality to Jorge Glas, Former Vice President of Ecuador and Convicted of Corruption

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The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, stirred up a new diplomatic controversy on Tuesday when he published in X that Jorge Glas, the former vice president of Ecuador who is imprisoned in a maximum security prison, has received Colombian nationality. From Quito, the answer came coldly: “Jorge Glas is still Ecuadorian,” replied the government of Daniel Noboa through the Chancellery. In a message to the press group of the institution, Ecuadorian …

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The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, stirred up a new diplomatic controversy on Tuesday when he published in X that Jorge Glas, the former vice president of Ecuador who is imprisoned in a maximum security prison, has received Colombian nationality. From Quito, the answer came coldly: “Jorge Glas is still Ecuadorian,” replied the government of Daniel Noboa through the Chancellery. In a message to the press group of the institution, Ecuadorian …

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador states that the sentences against former Vice President Jorge Glas remain in force, despite Gustavo Petro’s granting him Colombian citizenship. Following Petro’s message about the handing over of Colombian citizenship to Glas, the Ministry responded by means of a statement, indicating that they have not received any “official documents”

President Gustavo Petro trinó that granted nationality to former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, who has been imprisoned since November in a prison in that country, accused of corruption. He then erased the trine, but on the net there was evidence of the administrative act he published, which makes the procedure official. The act is signed by the Colombian consul general in Quito, Paula Perdomo. Ecuador has no notification of the issue. “E…

The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, announced on Tuesday, September 16, that he granted Colombian nationality to the former Ecuadorian vice president, Jorge Glas. . In his X account, Petro requested the government of Ecuador to formally surrender Glas and indicated: «I thank the government of Ecuador for this step for the peace of the Latin American nations. . The first Colombian president, shared a photograph of the Act of Juramento where G…

President Gustavo Petro announced the news in his X account and asked the Government of Ecuador to be handed over to the Colombian

This Tuesday, September 16, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, revealed that Jorge Glas obtained his Colombian nationality.

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El Economista broke the news in on Tuesday, September 16, 2025.
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