‘Help me,’ pleads Ecuador ex-VP at center of crisis with Mexico

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‘Help me,’ pleads Ecuador ex-VP at center of crisis with Mexico

MEXICO CITY, April 19 — A former Ecuadoran vice president captured during a widely condemned raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito has appealed to the presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil for help. Quito sent its security forces into the diplomatic mission to arrest Jorge Glas on April 5, hours after Mexico granted him asylum. “I am in the worst prison in Ecuador and on a hunger strike. Help me,” Glas wrote in a message to Mexican President …