Ecuador ex-Vice President Glas taken to hospital -prison agency


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  • Tuesday, 09 Apr 2024

FILE PHOTO: Ecuador's Vice President Jorge Glas talks during an interview with Reuters at the Government Palace in Quito, Ecuador, August 29, 2017. REUTERS/Daniel Tapia/File Photo

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's former vice president Jorge Glas was taken to a hospital in Guayaquil on Monday, the SNAI prison agency said in a statement, due to apparently becoming ill after refusing prison food.

Glas was arrested dramatically over the weekend when Ecuadorean police stormed Mexico's embassy in Quito, where he had been living since December.

(Reporting by Alexandra Valencia; Writing by Oliver Griffin)

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