Sheinbaum freezes relations with Ecuador while Noboa remains in power

The socialist president conditions Mexican diplomacy to ideological whims and turns a matter of state into a political vendetta

President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Mexico will not resume diplomatic relations with Ecuador while Daniel Noboa remains in charge of that country. 
 

The decision comes after the Ecuadorian police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito in April 2024, where former Vice President Jorge Glas was arrested. But the background of the conflict is no longer diplomatic… it is purely ideological.

Sheinbaum, direct heir of López Obrador's regime, has decided to close any possibility of dialogue while a president who doesn't belong to the Latin American left club governs.  What should be solved with diplomacy, she turned into an ideological crusade, being intransigent like a good socialist dictator. 

Selective diplomacy and personal vendettas

The president accuses Noboa of “violating Mexican sovereignty.” But she forgets that Mexico offered political asylum to a convicted corrupt individual, protected by the narrative of the “political persecuted.” In other words, we defend fugitives if they are like-minded… and break relations if they are taken from us.

Mexico has taken the case to the International Court of Justice. But at the same time, it uses the bilateral relationship as political punishment.  If someone from their side doesn't govern, then there are no relations, no dialogue, no respect.

The 4T turned diplomacy into export ideology

Sheinbaum not only keeps López Obrador's line, she   radicalizes it.   She claims foreign intervention when it suits her, but supports regimes that violate human rights if they are socialists. For the 4T, foreign policy no longer represents Mexico.

It represents their bloc: that of tropical socialism, rhetorical excuses, and selective asylums.

Mexico loses leadership due to tantrums from the National Palace

While other countries seek to mend relations, Mexico isolates itself, cancels embassies, and breaks bridges.  It does so in the name of “dignity,” when in reality it is an inability to dialogue outside the dogma.

Sheinbaum's decision doesn't protect Mexico. It protects the narrative of a left that tolerates contradictions.  It turns every international disagreement into an ideological conflict.

Mexico stopped doing diplomacy. Now it does external militancy.  Meanwhile, the country's voice fades in the international concert… because it no longer represents everyone, only those who repeat the regime's script.