Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum explained on July 1, 2026 that Mexico is keeping relations with Ecuador and Peru suspended and defended the government’s foreign-policy choices.
- Mexico cut ties with Ecuador after Ecuadorian security forces entered the Mexican embassy in Quito on April 5, 2024 to detain ex-vice president Jorge Glas and then filed a complaint at the International Court of Justice.
- Mexico’s strain with Peru dates to December 2022, when Mexico backed Pedro Castillo and granted asylum to some family members, a stance that Mexico says prompted Lima to downgrade or suspend relations.
- Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, has proposed restoring relations but Sheinbaum said normalization is not imminent and that the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores will assess required conditions and legal steps.
- Mexico frames the dispute as a defense of diplomatic protections under the Vienna Convention, a position that keeps ICJ proceedings and legal guarantees at the center of any return to bilateral cooperation and consular services.