Ecuador raid a blow to Mexico’s ‘sacred’ asylum tradition

In the past century, Mexico has opened its doors to revolutionaries, Spanish exiles, and persecuted Latin American leaders — a tradition that has been dealt an unprecedented blow by a police invasion of its embassy in Ecuador.The invasion prompted the leftist leader to break off diplomatic ties with Ecuador, something Mexico had only done previously with Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet, and Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza.